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The ground is there for safety purposes, it has no electrical function. Your laptop should work fine with no ground. Many laptop power supplies do not have a ground prong.

CPU temperature sensors can be somewhat unreliable. If your computer is not crashing, it's probably not too hot - but isantop's suggestions are a good idea anyway.

Did you install the build-essential package? I believe it's still required for compiling stuff.

Your disc probably only has Windows drivers, which are pretty useless in Linux.

Does your motherboard work? Linux includes drivers for most motherboard components.

EDIT: Looks like there's at...

Try commenting out any lines in you /etc/apt/sources.list file that refer to your CD drive.

You can install Java from the repositories - take a look at this page. I believe you have to enable the Partners repository in 10.04.

I have a Netgear WGR614 and it works pretty well for me.

I've had no problems with 3D acceleration with an ATI HD5770 - can't speak for any other ATI cards, of course.

Unless you really need a USB wireless adapter, I would get a PCI version - this one...

It should be fine - try 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' to be sure.

What happens when you try to boot into Vista? Error message?

An SD card will probably show up as something like /dev/mmcblk*p*, where the * are numbers - if you insert the SD card into a card reader, at least.

What kind of camera do you have? If the camera has a USB interface, it might show up as a USB mass storage device if you plug it in with the USB cable.

Alternatively, plug the SD card in and type...

I suggest a sledgehammer ;)

Look up the atoi or strtol functions.

You'll probably need to install the jam package.

Of course, teaching only the most-used software is a good way to make sure it stays the most-used software.

Wireless N is generally only faster if you have a wireless N router - you can find a comparison of various wireless standards here or on Wikipedia.

gabimbola, if you want to start a new thread,...

Have you tried using a different mouse?

Yes, you can use a different port - just change the "Port 22" line /etc/ssh/sshd_config to "Port XXXX" (where XXXX is whatever port you want, 2222 is a good alternative SSH port), then forward that...

You don't need to use Wordpress if you don't want to - Wordpresss is a tool you could use to essentially handle some of the behind-the-scenes details of running a blog. See the website for more...

Something like Sage?

I seem to be able to take at least 150 or so pictures on one battery charge.

I bought a Canon PowerShot SD1000 ($200, probably can find cheaper) about a year ago, and I've been pretty happy with it. It does take fairly good pictures without the flash as long as you hold the...

SDL is often used for projects like this.

It's possible, take a look here, but it might be a big project to do by yourself.

I think the one discussed in this article is more geared for military use. Of course, it is only a prototype.