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In many parts of the world, exercise is called work. You can even get paid to do it!

over the power lines????? so we've got all these switching power supplies throwing line noise onto the grid that everyone has to buy power conditioners so they don't have problems that they have just caused, and now into that noise someone wants to throw signal and try to pull it back out again? Bizzare dead end.

I've seen a system do this with a bad power supply. You may have to admit defeat and head to your favorite computer shop. If the hard drive is healthy, moving it to another box would give you instant access to your data. Of course, if you haven't backed up, do it! It could be the motherboard, but get the power checked out first.

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It is much more likely that ie is more (most?) vulnerable to running malicious code. This argument that ____ from Microsoft is vulnerable because it is dominant, and _____ from _____ is not bothered by nasty code because it isn't really doesn't wash. Most of the time, software that is secure is not vulnerable becuase it is secure, well written, etc. Look at the recent series of adds from Macintosh. They are not claiming to be secure through being unknown, they are secure because they are secure.

There are two basic approaches one can take. first approach: Install a binary package from your vendor second approach: Install from sources I think you have the two confused. Unfortutunately, I'm not very familiar with Ubunto, but it seems to be using many tools from Debian. To start, try: man app-get and see what that says. Then, fetch and install Apache using native (i.e. Ubunto/Debian) tools for fetching & installing packages. If and only if what you want to play with is not available from your vendor as a binary package do you go to the second approach, fetching the sources from the developers of the program. The developers will be writing for the community at large, and are unlikely to customize their program for your particular flavour of Linux. You will have to do quite a bit of reading and hacking into various files inside your /etc directory, setting up a user, and and and..... all that is usually done for you by your vendor during the install from a native binary package. If you don't have make, you won't have gcc either, so there is no way you are set up to install from sources. Far be it from me to discourage someone from learning, but don't jump into the deep end and get yourself all frustrated. Iscatel

Have you people no knowledge of history? Here goes, you can use your favorite search engine to fill in the blanks, names, dates, etc to your heart's content. Linus Torvolds did not take this step. He came up with the name, built the initial community, got the whole thing going, but failed to copywrite the name Linux. Some slimeball in the US did, and the powers that be allowed him to. This guy was never part of the community, contributed nothing, and when he felt the time was right, started to try to cash in by threatening various distributions, demanding $$$$$ from them because he "owned" the name, at least according to the US government. His ploy never made him any money. The community got together and threatened legal action (mail fraud, etc) against both said slimeball & lawyer. He was given the option of making all the legal problems just go away by simply relinquishing his claim. Seems he was a bit hard to get ahold of for a while, eventually caving and the name was yet again free.

I would suggest a book. One of the best basic introductions I can possibly think of is Don Crabb's "Running Unix So It Doesn't Run You" I can't speak directly about the Ubunto distribution as I've never tried it, but the most basic, working within a text console hasn't changed much, and will be much the same from distribution to distribution, even across the various POSIX systems. If you've never had any exposure to any of these systems, I would strongly suggest starting with a distribution that that has a "live" CD. In this context, "live" means that you can run the system right off the CD, without putting anything on you hard drive at all. It is the most gentle introduction you can get, because if you get frustrated or confused, you haven't changed your hard drive, so you can go back to where you were by simply rebooting your system back to your old OS (I assume that would be some version of Windows).