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www.howtoforge.com has all your answers, check out their "Pefect Setup" tutorials, there is usually one for most of the common distros.
And of course, completely free.
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I like Acer personally because they offer AMD laptops, (although if you want AMD then it probably best to wait a few months to get the Turion X2 CPU).
Although I hate to admit it "Dell" do make some good stuff (servers and laptops). Although all of dells laptops are really made by Ergo which make some stunning laptops (especially the ones which are armour plated for the army and will stop small arms fire while working as body armour).
I suppose the one thing that Dell does have is that you can customise what you want very easily, but it is quite hard to find somewhere to customise an Acer, they all tend to be pre-made machines (at least in the UK).
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I'm doing the LAMP install now, I sure all it is doing is default installing the pacakges, so its not really doing the hard bit, which is configuring everything nicely.
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Downloading currently at 200KB/s steady, not sure about the one command lamp setup, but will give it a go and see what happens. Just hope the OS is lighter than Suse still.
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Many of the trackpads I have used have drivers which you can use instead of the generic windows ones which let you customise features like that. I would look their first, I would think that new laptops will have it available, older ones might be harder.
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I second linux, even if your arn't familiar with it, its still easier to set up a server with than windows. Check out www.howtoforge.com and specifically their "Perfect Setup" tutorials for various distros, they run through a lot of stuff in a clear way.
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I saw a video of someone playing Doom on their ipod video, looked pretty good but the controls were useless.
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I've seen them have some sub £400 Acer laptops in there with not to bad a spec for the price. wouldn't buy one though as they of course are all Intel. Plus I think you really want to buy components etc. from people who know what they are and what they do. (Unlike the people in dixons who were trying to push an Apple laptop on me and told me it was the new MacBook Pro when it had iBook G4 written underneath the screen, and then after I corrected them they tried to tell me I was wrong).
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Its a nice use of materials, the lighting really shows them off as well. Particularly the tiling on the back wall, looks great.
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Looks interesting, is that some sort of corrugated metal used at the bottom?
Lighting looks very good.
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well Linux is just a operating system basis and all the distros for linux use the linux kernal (which makes them linux), then each distro has there own ways of doing things, what programs they include etc.
the reason why people choose different distros is personal i think, as then what they do differently. people try some and like one and then stick with it. I think the main difference between all the distro is how much support they give it.
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Windows XP home can't accept more than 5 connections, it blocks them after it reachs the limit, so Microsoft can't really take the license away because unless you hack the limit (I have seen a version of XP floating around that says it has done) then your not going to go over the limit. Same with Pro but 10 connections.
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Why do the new Intel MAC CPUs look like the Socket A CPUs? I never liked the die based cooling, it always seemd to me that they would run alot cooler if you used the whole top serfice of the CPU, of course AMD made the change with the release of there 939 socket CPUs.
All notebook CPUs (and chips in general) don't make use of a heatspreader as it is termed and leave the die exposed because the heatspreader adds another 3mm ontop of the CPU and when the manufacturer is trying to make the laptop as thin as possible it doesn't help.
Secondly all that the heatspreader is useful for is stopping people from damaging their new expensive processor, it doesn't improve heat transfer, if anything it will hurt it. Because underneth the headspreader is a normal chip die we are all familiar with, this then has to have thermal paste placed on top of it, then the heatspreader, then more thermal paste and finally the heatsink. So you now have added two more sections of material for the heat to transfer through and this means there is a greater chance of reduced heat transfer.
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I like FreeNAS, (www.freenas.org). Very light and its got plenty of features.
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I have to say OpenBSD has the best installer, if you feel like doing everything,
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Not quiet sure what you mean, but you will only be able to connect to one wireless network even when there are many that you could connect to. You wlan drivers will probably include a tool for searching and selecting which networks to contect to, if not then you can do it with the windows wireless configurator.
Otherwise for monitoring and searching for acess points but not connecting to them you have NetStumbler.
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Its usually a feature of the graphics drivers, at school the decent computers (the one built by me) have nVidia GFX so it is available in the driver menu.
The crap machines which mostly use Intel "Extreme" Graphics have that feature when you press Ctrl then a cursor key to orientate the screen.
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I would have said m0n0wall was a lot easier than the others, esp. if you use the CF version which is just a 8MB CF and a CF to IDE ataptor. Plug in, boot, follow some very simple instructions on the computer and then the rest through the WebGUI. Its less system intensive than Smoothwall as well which makes it better for older hardware.
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You could always open up the wireless AP and then inside you would probably have the connectors for pig-tails etc. You might want to check your model first though and you would need not to care about your warrenty if you have one.
Otherwise you current antennas probably have connectors and you could use an extender cable and attache it to a home-brew antenna. But the more connections you have and cable length degrades the signal.
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In different countries you are limited in what encyption you can use. I use the example of SSL in the US used to be limited to 64-bits (which is very small for SSL) because the Government prohibited the use of anything more. Windows infact used to ship in the States with IE set with a maximum encyrption of 64-bits.
http://rechten.uvt.nl/koops/cryptolaw/
I found this a while back and is an interesting read. It might answer some questions you have better than me.
I do wonder how someone looking at encrypted data could say whether it was encrypted with a more powerful encyption than was allowed. As far as I can think you could only use the argument that you can't decrypt it therefore it must be using stronger encyption and that argument wouldn't work in a court of Law.
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I really would recommend not doing anything to school computers. You are likely to get yourself into a lot of trouble even if you permission from teachers. The only machines you can safely hack and not get into trouble are your own (unless you are a security professional with a documented permission from the owner of the systems).
On your too points, if you don't wish the school to have those photos then you should go through proper channels for them to remove them.
On the bet with your teacher, it sounds like its not worth it, and if you having to ask us for help then its probably not a good idea.
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http://www.mathclubinc.com/leet.html
Do you mean this?
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I take it you mean by "ARP thing" Cain and Ables ARP Cache Poisioning Tool, just remember to put the Router/Gateway selected in the first box and in the second box the victims IP.
Disable track pad click? And: What laptop do you own?
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I know how you feel about needing the laptop for a long time, i'll be getting one between now and september before I go off to uni.
You could always look at IBM/Lenovo, as they also have some very nice hardware, plus good linux support if you are interested in that.
Best place to try out laptops is the net, read plenty of reviews, its the best way to get a feel for something you can't touch. Its also worth looking at comments by owners because they might pick up on something someone else didn't, but remember they might not be telling the truth, purposefully or accidently.
As you are in the UK, if you haven't already check out www.ebuyer,com for some pre-built ones, they generally have a good range of Acer models and I've never had a problem with using ebuyer (although their enotes system is crap).
The hardest thing to get in the laptop at the moment is fairly decent graphics, most laptops seem to have ATi which I dislike and the rest have crappy nVidia, getting somthing around the 6600/7600 mark is difficult.