Give it shot and decide for yourself if you like it. All you have to do is open a terminal and type

Can we get a note in the article for people to include their Distro? That would be very helpful.

This is what package managers are for. That's the closest thing you will get to a commonly used installer.

Ahh, this is my area of expertise, so I'll be helping a lot today, I suppose

I've always have good luck with Intel wifi cards (it's the one in my Asus right now)

If you're using Ubuntu, the easiest way is with Ubuntu tweak

That's your computer being slow. Is the hard drive light on while this is happening? If so, see how much RAM you have left, and what programs might be taking up a lot.

Depends on the website.

A fork of Linux. It's open source, so as long as someone wants to keep it going, it will.

@yehoshua_ghitis: docs.python.org/tutorial/

@Raike:

Kaspersky is fine. Though any antivirus will pick up the same malware if they are updated.

DISCLAIMER: I'm not a parent, but I have taken care of my siblings quite often when they were young.

If the virus is still running in safe mode, you need to use a bootable CD to clear it out. If you have a Linux disc handy, you could boot it, install clamav, and run a scan. Otherwise, you'll have to get a bootable antivirus disc

Hard drive, thumb drive, external hard drive... Nearly every distro will still read it as /dev/sd*, so it's no different for the distro to boot from that instead of a hard drive.

View the page source and find the .swf link. Open it in a browser and save it from the file menu

They keep track of the storage space you're using. If you start using several GB, then they will notice, and kindly ask you to either remove the files, or leave. (if not just kicking you straight off)

Because that doesn't work. No filters work.

If you're only paying $60/year for web hosting, then using your web hosting as a file backup is almost certainly against your TOS, and you will get your service shut down.

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