[Website On Cd]

I'd say your best bet is to not use the web for this.

I'm sure I've seen some little programs that let you make up a simple menu and display it. Something like 3DMenu and it's kin from back in the DOS days but more modern. Don't remember any off the top of my head as I've never had need of them but you should be able to find them with a bit of searching.

[Amd Chips?]

Bafore the Athlons, AMD named their IA-32 line Kn where n was some integer. So preceding the Athlon were the K5 and K6. The Athlon was going to be called the K7, but somone in marketing decided that if Intel was using bizzare names like "Pentium" rather than meaningful numbers, then AMD should do the same. And so K7 became the Athlon. The XP and MP were also K7s, just better ones.

The Athlon64 and Opteron are basicly the K8. There is a lot more to them than just the AMD64 instructions. In fact you should ignore the extended mode as it will do absolutely nothing for a normal user but cause trouble. Just think of it as the next AMD IA-32 processor family and you should be fine.

[Linux For A Beginner]

ok, wel the install went really well and i am up and running ubuntu. so i have a few more (more to come) quesitons about how the operating system is run,

i go to computer and try to create new folders so i can store stuff but it says im not the owner and i ahve no clue on how to change that, ive been to the permissions and they are all grey shaded so i cant click on them any clue on how to fix this problem, also where would i get themes to download for ubutu ( like the best ones) and is there a trick on how to do it or is it pretty straight forward? also when i try to play mp3's it says the file is not supported or somehting like "i dont hav ethe necessary codecs or something" any idea on a good program that plays mp3's?

anywho that's all my questions for now,\

thanks for all the great help guys i cant do it without you.

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If you want to store personal stuff, do so in your home directory. "Places" -> "Home Folder" You do not want your ordinary user account to have permision to do everything and anything. That's what the root account is for.

To add MP3 support

Open a terminal and

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Then type your password.

You should get a Gedit window with sources.list. Find a line that looks like this

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary main

And add "universe" on the end to enable the unsupported packages. "Multiverse" will also enable "Non-free" packages, Things that are not under Free licenses or PD (Freeware, shareware, etc). "Restricted" is stuff that is supported but not free, like certain binary only hardware drivers. If you add all three you should get

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary main universe restricted multiverse

Then save and close.

Now update the list of available packages and download the MP3 decoder

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-mad

Wait for it to finish, and you now have MP3 playback installed (for Gstreamer applications like Rhythmbox and Totem at least)

You could also do all of this through Synaptic, but it's easier to describe doing it via the terminal. If you haven't found Synaptic yet, it's under "System" -> "Administration" and will let you add and remove software packages.

There should be some packages containing themes for GNOME, you can install them from Synaptic. gnome-themes, gnome-themes-extra, metacity-themes

For more, you could look at http://gnome-look.org/ and http://art.gnome.org/

[Need A New Keyboard]

It fails to meet most of your requirements (Expensive, no wireless, no mouse), but the only keyboard worth using is the Fujitsu FKB 4700.

[Post Your Linux Screen Shot]

And something for your userContent.css. I allready had this to make screen shot threads bearable on another Invision board.

img[alt="user posted image"]{max-width:640px}

[Tech Support At G4 Is Gone!]

Well, at the very least I can't imagine this forum being much worse than G4's so I guess I'll give it a try.