Logical thought is a wonderful thing and when it is applied to a problem at hand.

I managed to get everything I wanted to work in Edubuntu except the wireless adapter, I tried installing drivers and manually entering the network and all sorts of other things and all to no avail.... Then it struck me as hard as a runaway semi being driven by the Incredible Hulk, it must be a regional issue.

In Japan you can use channels 1-14, in Europe you can use channels 1-13 but in the good old U.S of A you can only use channels 1-11 and since my wireless router is set up for use on channel 13, Edubuntu (which is probbably geared a towards U.S. market) simply did not see it, I changed it to channel 10 and it picked the network out of the air in no time.

Real player was a little trickyer to install, but after reading this page all became clear.

Samba is still a bit of an issue, but I plan to solve it by setting up an FTP server instead.

Operating systems come and operating systems go...

I have been working on a project one of the necessities of the project it was done on Micro$oft Windows XP. The operating system died the death that all Micro$oft operating systems do.

Since the project is an educational one I have decided to give Edubuntu 7.10 a chance, it comes with Firefox and OpenOffice already installed so that saves some work.

Upon installing the Edubuntu it then updated everything (operating systems and applications) that it could and restarted the computer once and was ready for use.

This is in stark contrast to the last time I reinstalled Micro$oft Windows XP it took about an hour in updates, I had to download both Firefox and OpenOffice and then I had to run in administrator for anything to work.

I lost about a weeks work and I hope not to do that again, weekly backups are a thing of the past, I will be looking into on-line backup services in the next few weeks.