And that's one more reason for me to properly learn a foreign language. Unfortunately, time. Unless python counts?

My university is always rotating out all sorts of stuff, so whenever a department (including IT) needs to get rid of something, it's up for grabs to other departments for two weeks, and if no other department goes for it, it gets sent to a surplus warehouse that's open to the public. I got a fairly nice 24 port switch…

Take out the first "K" and see what you get. ;)

Thanks! That's good to know!

VOTE: Transmission

I sense some testing in my future.

For about $20 at Home Depot (and probably Lowes and Menards and the like as well) you can get a 4'x8' sheet of Shower Board (also called Shower Paneling) that works fairly well, but it takes some elbow grease to erase stuff that's been on there for a couple of weeks.

get tased in ours.

I agree with undecim. It's highly unlikely you have a key logger on your machine. Chances are your broker sees "Oh hey, it's linux. THAT'S NOT WINDOWS OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG SOMETHING'S HAX0RED!" and assumes the worst.

Odd. Assuming you're using ubuntu, why don't you just use the proprietary drivers installer? That should install what you need automatically.

I can't help with 1 or 2, but with 3, there should be an option to login to "ubuntu classic" on the login screen. Once you do it manually, you should be able to go into the login-screen settings (under system, I think) and force it to log in with that.

*please let me beat undecim this time*

You can burn to a CD like undecim waid, or you can try unetbootin on a live cd image you download to put it on a USB drive, and boot from that instead. It's usually a bit faster than a CD, and you can write to it (provided you set up a casper file).

It depends on your video card, but you probably need to have some proprietary drivers installed. Do you know what card is in your machine?

Gentoo.

This is really all up to how you plan to use your machine. Personally, I only allot a small bit to win7, a small bit to the OS, a gig or less for swap, and the remainder of the space for home. NTFS for win7, of course, but for the OS and home I use ext4.

I find it easiest for me to setup a dynamic dns domain ([www.dyndns.com)] and set that up to update automatically on the router. I forwarded port 22 into my server and installed openssh. Then I use winSCP on windows machines to connect to it and use it as a file server. There's a portable version of winSCP you can use…

I'm not sure I understand. There are package managers (essentially app stores) to install things, and for a lot of things if you want to install something that isn't in the manager, you can typically download a .deb/.rpm to install with. Although there are multiple formats, it's usually easy to figure out which you…

I agree with undecim, Intel wifi cards have always worked well for me. I have a relatively old Netgear USB dongle I can use in a pinch that tends to work well, but I don't recall what driver it uses. I know it's not ndiswrapper, I feel the same way you do with it.

I agree with undecim, Intel wifi cards have always worked well for me. I have a relatively old Netgear USB dongle I can use in a pinch that tends to work well, but I don't recall what driver it uses. I know it's not ndiswrapper, I feel the same way you do with it.