murtu52

US! Yes, most of us are children, if not physically mentally...

if i'm not mistaken, i remember my dad telling me that the battery located on the motherboard is to keep the time. It should be a small, round part, usually set in a plastic holder, a bit bigger than a nickel, if all batteries are the same; most of them i've seen are that size.

yes, mandrake does sound like a very good choice, but is there another choice? i want a more in-depth (basically harder) distro, so i can really learn unix/linux? or can i get that same challenge with mandrake; or maybe i'm just fully out of my mind and should take it easy?

Well, i guess you have to give something up to get the better power consumption.... Also, iccaros, i think i misunderstood you in a previous post....I thought you said that Gentoo would be bad as a distro for this situation....I think i want to make this a project, but i first need it to have internet access first (because the only reason my dad is letting do this is because right now the internet on his laptop isn't working; I can linux on the laptop under one condition: that the internet works). So if i can get the internet aspect running, i'm fine with learning the ropes of portage and Gent

What category would light be under, if it had be be classified [in the tangible sense; like solid, liquid, etc., maybe not that simple, but the same sense of the word "category"]?

pretty funny, macmarauder.

Well, my processor should be able to run text mode just fine, but i need GUI because my dad will be using this computer...as i said, he isn't technologically illiterate, just a newb, like me....I'm not sure how Pentium M stands up against other Pentiums (like P2) but i'm pretty sure it isn't a lot more power...or am i wrong?

yeah, i think it'll just keep accumulate, just as macmarauder said, half of 1 is .5, half of .5 is .25, etc. so tecnically it'll keep going and going....

PA system (in LAUSD, they passed some sort of proposition that required all classrooms to be able to have instant contact with the main office, so they installed phones in each class. In my journalism class, the phone is broken, so they monitor us through the PA system...everytime they start monitoring us, we know it because it goes BEEEP.)

Yes, quite right, but you have noooo idea HOW interesting

Alright, i knew portage was complicated, but i thought i'd eventually pick it up...So, instead i should go for fedora? i'll go download it now... When i was first introduced to unix, a cousin of mine told me to check out debian. Now that i know a bit more about unix and linux, i know that debian is not the easiest distro to learn. However, i do have knoppix now, and i read somewhere that it can be installed onto the HD as debian. Is this true, and if it is, is it something achieveable by a linux newb like me? As you said, jcl, i'll boot with a live CD and find if it supports it....I also heard

Good question....but this should be quite difficult, especially since light isn't mass, which would make it hard to compare....hmmm.... i'd say it would depend on the type of wire (type of atom transporting the electron), like copper, silver, etc., so basically saying that it is a possibility that electricity can beat light, if the conductor is the best.

Good...at least nothing bad came of this....

LISA (Mac's predecessor)

My dad, who uses an old laptop (Pentium-M ~250MHZ, 224MB RAM, 10GB HD) has finally gotten sick of using windows, mostly because it doesn't run properly and doesn't have the proper safety that he so desperately needs (don't know, but he once told me that the computer was messed up; it turned out it literally had 50+ spywares on it). So, he gave me the project of installing linux and making it run with our Wireless-B router. Now, i would have used Gentoo as i was planning to use as my first HD-installed linux, but since this is a laptop, and the main thing is to use the wireless card, i thought

Windows...in the games section .

"Live In Your World, Email In Ours"? Wow, they should have just taken ALL of PS2's marketing tools! This is gonna be a very short lived concept, i know some person somewhere will try to shut it down....

levels

ooh....Ratanese! I love that language!!!

All of these are very good suggestions....I'm not the expert here, so which one should i try first? If i have any problems, i'll post them here....

Thanks, that makes me feel much better.

Hooked on phonics....that commercial was really annoying.

Welcome here, I hope to learn much from you while you grace us with your presence. (*Goes and sees macmarauder and the the garage door opener, "Ooh! Look, garage door openers!" and runs to frolic with the gizmos*)...

Thanks....I finally finished it. I did what you said (and also did something smart and consolidated all the declarations into a few lines. I finally tested it with my homework, and it works perfectly....Now, homework will be a breeze...i won't have to do all the work in my head....

Well, this isn't good....upon investigation, i found out that this computer doesn't have a cd drive! I thought it did, but unfortunately, i was wrong. So, i was wondering, is there any way to load an OS onto it with a floppy drive, a dialup modem, a serial port, a parallel port, and a Game port? I really want to get this computer up and running with linux, even if it is limited to home use (needs power adapter in at all times). Any ideas?