from the 'scope venue.. *nix + a few berets there; they aren't all one-trick ponies staring at squiggles on little green screens.
FWIW (Some earlier comments about the hazards of a typo in CL.)

1. For a followup to my previous post, here's an example of
concatenated hyphens (--), missing steps, downlevel versions, and
plain bad concepts:

"Move /home to it's own partition January 29, 2006"

http://ubuntu.wordpr...-home-to-its-own-
partition/

2. Backups are essential, but they promise to be tricky. Ubuntu has
some problems with file attributes and device id's. Here is some
starting info, along with dissenting opinions:

"Clone your Ubuntu installation onto a new hard disk"

http://www.linux.com/feature/152592

3. The hardware acceleration on the Radeon video in my ASUS M2A-VM
motherboards will not work on eMachineShop's mechanical design
software:

http://www.emachineshop.com/

AMD refuses to open their driver code, but NVidia has opened theirs
so Linux programmers can write driver for open source. Here are some
graphics chips that are compatible with Linux:

http://us.download.n.../1.0-9755/README/
appendix-a.html

Heres' some more supported NVidia graphics chips:

http://packages.ubun...id/nvidia-glx-173

I had to buy extra NVidia cards to get eMachineShop to run, but
these can easily run into hundreds of dollars. Here is the cheapest
I could find:

SPARKLE GeForce 7300GS SFPX73SDHU2256M Video Card $34.99CAD

http://www.shopbot.ca/r.html?
catc=1&refproduct=&refshop=2737&refshopcodeid=7144603

These cards work fine, but that url will probably expire soon. I got
my cards from Tiger Direct a couple of weeks ago, now they no longer
even list the card.

Regards,

Mike