I dual boot my laptop because, as a university CS student, I may occasionally be asked to run windows binaries. However my Windows partition goes relatively untouched.

Today however, there was a mistake. When the computer booted, my finget slipped on the grub menu, and I accidentally booted into an HP-provided recovery patrition. The first thing this recovery does is to garble your MBR without asking. Note: not fix, just garble. It didn't replace my working grub with a working ntblr, it just replaced it with a non-working grub.

So I glanced at my desk. I'm an avid slax user, but alas my only live CD was on loan to a friend. Then I saw the tiny 8cm cd I burned Puppy on, merely for the novelty of the fact that it fit.

Reluctantly, I tried a new liveCD, and couldn't have been more pleased. It came with a fully-functioning ndiswrapper setup, so a quick mount, ndiswrapper -i, and an iwconfig later, I was on the web. How easy! I quickly found grub documentation, and two grub commands later I have a working laptop again.

Thanks to the puppy team. All I ever had against Pupply was that I preffered icons to open on a double click, not single. Seems so silly now.

See? Us Aussies are good for something

Congrats! I too have a somewhat different opinion of Ubuntu after the LiveCD made life very easy for me one day -- I still don't want it installed, but it sure was handy to have available. Love that signature, btw that's a good one.