here some links that I live by when looking for information on my questions
and other people questions. My main bible is Ubuntu Wiki site. There is a mass
amount of information there. Please book mark these links.
Ubuntuwiki
RestrictedCODECS
The above link gives you how to install them and thus not needed to use
Automatix for newer versions of Ubuntu.

How to install programs
http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/
or
http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/index

Some video to watch how to use Ubuntu
http://ubuntuclips.org/
if the server is up
http://www.quickones.org/
POD cast on Ubuntu
http://www.linuxreality.com/
Tutorials
www.unix-tutorials.com/tutorials.php?os=Ubuntu
How to burn MP3 using Grip
ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php
Ubuntu Forums. A fast way one getting answers to every day questions to the OH
Hell What Did I Do and How to Fix It.
http://ubuntuforums.org
A list of Photo, Design, video, and Animie tools
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=293798
For music production.( This one is for you Dr.Ice ) Some use Ubuntu Studio with
out a problem, however there is a few like me. That have hardware conflicts with
the Realtime kernel that it uses and the software program called Jackd that
connects it all together. All Ubuntu studio is a glorified version of Ubuntu
with all the music production programs installed for you. All you need to to see
the the list the Ubie Studio had for music production and install the programs
yourself using Synaptic. All of them are there and all up to date. When I did
this I had not one problem using Midi and using Midisport USB and JackD. A good
alternative for music production is Studio64. If you have a 64 bit processor or
not. It flows just like wine.
http://www.64studio.com/
It is a too a Debian based distro with Gnome. A other one is Musix and that is
based on Knoppix and KDE based. I did not really care for it and had trouble
reading my sound card. Yet they list what software programs and you can et a
good idea what to install for you Ubuntu Machine.
Some times you cannot get a certain printer working or camera. You looked for a
Linux version of it and come up nothing. You look in synaptic and nope nothing
there. Some times all it takes to search for a RPM. That is Red Hat Package
Manager. You can install RPM packages and the above links will tell you how to
convert it to Debian Package. WARNING! The trouble with RPM is that if you do
not full fill the dependencies that it requires. It will not install. Make sure
you read up what it needs and check Synaptic for those depends under garments
are installed. If the they are not there. Well it going to take one at a time
and can be a pain in the butt in hopes it will work
http://rpm.pbone.net/
http://www.mirrorservice.org/
All so Google search for Unix drivers as well. It may be a Tar file, but Unix
drivers work just fine with Linux. Just you need to make sure that the depends
are met.
Now the next one is running windows apps using Wine. Well call me dumb. There
is a link for that too. Frank you are a Demi God.
http://frankscorner.org/
Well Gobby that are some links you have there, buttttttttttt! I am a honest guy
and I like to pay for those hard working people for DVD and MP3 codes. Just in
case big brother is watching me and I can sleep better at night. Well Uncle
Gobby has the answer for you. Linspire or Freespire has that for you. You can
join CNR and with one little click. It will install them for you for some cash.
http://www.cnr.com/index.seam.
Some people like to use instant pestering yahoo messenger. Well you no longer
to install ANY THING for that. What Gobby you must be smoking some great soap?
No my little third person who talks to me at times no. When you are at
Yahoo.com main welcome to maybe Microsoft owned. Just go down to MESSENGER
words and you do not need to click any thing. It will list your friends to
pester with. So you see OH! Gobby is there and I like to raze with him for a
bit. Just click on Gobby. It will get you started pestering me with endless
chat. Or yet, click on the messenger tab and it will go Down Lload now button
and if you scoll down it will ask you to get started. This is good for people
who like to use Opera too. Click on Get Started and it will ask you to sign
right in. OH geeze there is my friendly list. Poof you can chat away and have
loads of fun pestering some one at work and annoy them with endless links to
pron sites to get them in trouble at work. You have lots of
the yahoo tools there too.
With the new Yahoo messenger you can talk to any one who uses yahoo. It shows
them on line with that little happy face. Click on that happy face and you can
be asking them if England is a county name for Britain. Is that cool or what.
Man technology is so cool!
Dual booting is the next one that people ask a lot. Well there is lots of help
there. If you go to Google and type in Ubuntu Dual Booting Video. There is a
Vast amount of info there and same with Utube too. I have so many links for
that. Man lets not go there. It there on the net and the links above I listed.
The next one people ask is viruses. What! What is that? Not to go into a big
long winded talk on that. Lets put it this way. To get a virus on windows you
just need to be on it. Linux or Unix you need to work at at.
www.theregister.co.uk/.../
After 6 years using Linux. I yet to get one and yet to see one. To make it
short. i can pass a virus using email and put I love you EXE file. Windows it
will attack the whole kernel that windows uses. All the doors and paths lead
to its kernel. With Linux and Unix. It is a maze of doors and they do not lead
to the kernel, thus making it very and vary hard to get to it. And yet if a
virus gets there it is not going to get very far at all. It may effect a program
or two. To fix it is to uninstall the program and install it again. The only
time you need a Anti virus program if Linux is the server and top of the layer
is Windows O/S to the desktops. If you Wine to open up a virus EXE file. Wine is
going to say opps cannot not run that and poop out. Nothing happen and go on.
OK Gobby that is good to hear that and now what about spy ware. What is that?
Most spyware is made for windows. They put in the cookies and they put in the
most hidden files there can be in windows. We live in a MS world and to spy on
you and send you spam on how to grow. You can tell Mozilla to delete your cookie
at each time you log in and out. If some one or some link on the net tells you
have spy ware on the system. They want your cash and you may as well fall into
a internet fishing. Spyware software for Linux is a fishing tact and you do not
need it. Myspace.com lays lots of cookies in windows and track you. In linux it
sputters and fades out.
Can some one hack into my system? Should I install a Firewall to prevent that?
That is yes and no answer. Ubuntu has a firewall all ready installed into the
kernel. If there a security problem and over the years of using Ubie I only seen
only one notice for a security fix and they fix it so fast that a lot of people
did not see any thing. Ubie up dates the firewall about every 3 to 6 months.
Play in mind that most I live in the basement hackers use windows and really
cannot see what a Linux or Unix user is doing. Real hackers and why would they
bother with you. The true hacker uses Unix and Linux to hack into main frames
that use. Get this....Microsoft server edition. This is the main reason why a
lot and I mean a lot of bizz use Linux and Unix for the sever main frame. It has
so much firewall only and only true hackers and break it. It is short lived too.
So if you are a noid that wants control over that firewall. Then install
Firestarter in Synaptic. More you pump it up.
You cannot DL from P2P or Bit Torrent sites and so one.
OK that concludes Uncle Gobby's session here. The next session is that can
Gobby can get his Clonantor to work and clone him self and take over the world.
Or will he choose that hot chick. Stay tuned, I bet my money is that hot chick
over there and she steals his Clonanator and sells it to MS.