Wireless Broadband With Opensource

[PENDING]
Not sure of the wireless network I will be using but I know they use
BT Wireless.

Get Wireless to Work
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WifiDocs/WirelessTroubleShootingGuide?action=show&redirect=WirelessTroubleshootingGuide

http://www.linux.com/feature/56946

Use Windows Drivers in Linux?
http://www.net4nowtforum.co.uk/showthread.php?p=291060

Here are a few links to help.
Talks about getting a certain BT Broadband hardware working

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=153612&highlight=british+telecom+usb

Working hard to help save Us Money?
http://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk/review-949-ubuntu-site.html

Start Gnome Screensaver

I have disabled mine, as Dosbox has issues with it :/ But if I wish to see my fav screensaver, run the command in a launcher

gnome-screensaver-command --activate

Linux Terminal Firewall Controls

iptables can be a fiddle, instead use the command "ufw", it's a terminal/console front end command to iptables.

ufw disable : Switches off firewall and from boot startup also.

Example of commands allows FTP protocol from anywhere.

# ufw allow 21/tcp

# ufw allow 20/tcp
Rule added

# ufw status

Firewall loaded

Linux Compile Guides

These are rough guides to compile straight from source applications into Linux distros
Whiles do "./configure" and any additional options first before accepting the guide's opinion.

If you get peeved at that amount of development headers you have to install, there is place called getdeb.net

Ubuntu
Pidgin OR getDeb

Fanboi : Not good, stay open!

Or u may regret it, as I did on and off. Have to remind myself to never be a fanboi to any one thing. Everything has their good purposes in the end. Also not everyone wishes to know how a computer works.

MS/Apple/Linux!?
Something tells me, I may find some good uses to tell about Windows7. Well I am glad there are a lot of proffessionals who know Vista is a flop. And I must admit, XP is still MS's best work. As OSX is Apple's.

What is nice is Microsoft is providing Windows7 beta free for download.

I will stay support of Linux as it is an alternative for people who cannot afford much. I've still to make my own cut down version for myself someday and there are many many other flavours I've still to try such as: Gentoo and Slackware

Business?!
It's really a user friendly term for saying, civil competition amongst others to encourage competition. Lets face it, if there was no Apple or MS, what is there!? ibm :P

Yet I still wish it wasn't so hefty fighting amongst each of them. Guess thats my hippy nature side of me.

Dumbing Us Too Much?
Since the software industry is always involving at a fast rate, some people cannot keep up. But I believe the young generation does not need this, if they strive to constantly learn new things, then they can think outside the box.

CrunchGear : Mentions about some Inquirer Article saying, "Windows7 will kill Linux"
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/01/15/windows-7-will-kill-desktop-linux/

I don't think so.

So Need to do this : Linux on a USB

USB Stick OS
Ever expanding space on USB sticks, we can soon place our operating systems on them with everything set up.

Make me feel more better about getting my work environment set up at any place, far more quicker. Yet there is a level of not certain about whether the USB stick speed is fast enough for constant read/write.

Read article here.

Linux from Scratch
I'd also like to go to a level of making my own linux distro from scratch to compact the size more by reading the book here.