SkyHog
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Everything Offends Me
Its official, I have now setup my Laptop to dual boot with Ubuntu Linux and Windows XP.
Its exciting. After like 15 years of mucking around with computers, I feel like I did when I was 10 years old, sitting in front of a computer, not knowing what the hell to do.
My first step: Figuring out how to get my cellphone to connect to the internet through my laptop. Mission accomplished.
Next step: figuring out how to set up a wireless ad-hoc network so we can play games at work. After setting up wine.
Good stuff. If I grasp this, the other partition with WinXP might just go away.
One note, one thing I don't like about Ubuntu (I may learn to like it) is not having direct access to root, and having to use the sudo command for everything. I know its more secure, but....I'm not running a server. I also know there is a way around it, but I'm gonna try to do this the way it was intended first.
Its exciting. After like 15 years of mucking around with computers, I feel like I did when I was 10 years old, sitting in front of a computer, not knowing what the hell to do.
My first step: Figuring out how to get my cellphone to connect to the internet through my laptop. Mission accomplished.
Next step: figuring out how to set up a wireless ad-hoc network so we can play games at work. After setting up wine.
Good stuff. If I grasp this, the other partition with WinXP might just go away.
One note, one thing I don't like about Ubuntu (I may learn to like it) is not having direct access to root, and having to use the sudo command for everything. I know its more secure, but....I'm not running a server. I also know there is a way around it, but I'm gonna try to do this the way it was intended first.
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