Crash!

A few days ago, the old monitor I had that had been getting less and less sharp finally took a crap. A friend of mine happened to have a dell monitor, and I hooked it up and was working great. The other day I went to restart the computer. It had been working fine, but at boot I got an error message. The X-server settings had somehow been changed. My hardware was not being recognized, and the graphical interface would not start. I had a linux buddy of mine look at the settings, and he said pretty much the best thing would be do do a complete reinstall. So here we are, a clean install and all my plugins and programs installed. I have truly realized just how good this wiki I posted a link to in a previous post is. It gives exact syntax for installing automatix, which is ESSENTIAL! It uses it's own sources.list file so there are programs I haven't seen under "apt-get". I won't mention them here, you'll have to see for yourself.

There is also walkthroughs for other programs you may want. The most useful other part I have found is adding extra libraries to your sources.list file. This will allow you to download and install even more programs with either "apt-get" or synaptic package manager.

If you haven't checked out the list of firefox extensions yet, you need to. There are many useful ones on there, no doubt you will be able to use one or certainly more. I have the "Forecastfox Enhanced", "Show IP", "Fasterfox", "Shazou", and a few others for email, etc. I use forcastfox for the radar to see if there is a storm coming so I know when to shut down my computers. Shazou is a nifty little icon I picked up just yesterday. Click on it and you will see the geographic location on a map of where the serever is of the page you are currently looking at. Show IP also shows the actual ip address in the statusbar of the page you are on. Pretty cool stuff, I suggest you check it out.