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No they will not, and this is how dual-booting is done in most cases. The only concievable problem he may have lies with linux and the laptop hardware's compatibility. The only hard-drive issue I can think of is when the vendor puts their BIOS software on a small partition at the front of the...

You've got to be kidding me. Cost effective? HAH! Vaios cost an arm and a leg. Get a Toshiba, they are reliable and won't cost you as much as a pony. I personally wouldn't get a Compaq laptop as I and other people I've talked to have had trouble with them (for me the LCD screen stuffs up).

If you don't love computers, spare the industry and don't get into it. There is no money in IT anymore, and you have to love the work. If your aim is to get a boring job that makes you some cash so you can have fun outside of 9-5, then go become a beancounter.

Like Huy said, Mandrake or Redhat are good. They have plenty of wizards and automatic detection to get you on the road. LAN connections will be a sinch with either of them too.

Don't fret! Before you do anything, hop over to Bootdisk.com and get yourself a Windows 98 SE boot disk. If, after LILO overwrites your MBR, you want a clean MBR (and windows to boot directly again), boot up with the bootdisk and "fdisk /mbr" will solve your woes. PS. There is a way to get...

You might find this site useful for linux: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-threads.cfm?f=39 And for some nice commands: http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=96509133&m=6020942225 For PHP, I learnt by doing a small project for someone, also using MySQL...

Java was doing this years in advance and it's still rockin'. C# is a rehash (hah, I made a pun) of Java, (the language) without the security (you can have blocks of non-managed code). .NET is a rehash of Java the platform. Some benefits it does provide is total integration with MS' programs...

I got 94 for SDD in the HSC (last year). I don't think you guys should rely on your teachers. Get used to how uni works and go make your own notes for everything. Sometimes a bad teacher is a mixed blessing. I really think that how well you do in any subject has a lot to do with how much you...

Ditto.

Debian, or gentoo. Although gentoo is very hands-on, and might not be appropriate without a fair bit of linux experience. They both have terrific package management systems.

It is a "proper" *nix.. believe it! http://developer.apple.com/darwin/ They also choose to use FreeBSD's (that's what they refer to when sayin 4.4BSD) core applications.

I'm using Debian unstable right now. I've used Mandrake, Redhat, Slackware (a little) before. I had FreeBSD as my only OS for a while from version 4.5-4.7. Robbo, you should definitely move away from Redhat! I personally don't like it because of RPMs. That's why I use debian (and loved...

No way, there's a whole subversive group of linux users in hiding; I'm one of them. You should try it too!

Really? So was I. Hrm.. so were a lot of other people on this board (I've met mclake and I was in sunny's tute/lab). I'll have to be careful or I'm going to get paranoid delusions.

2 HDs, 1 PS, 1 CR for me. Hope everyone got the results they worked for.

mp3mojo... if it's a higher comp class you're talking about, definitely do it! A great challenge, and you'll end up learning a lot more. There also seems to be an accelerated tute/lab for Higher Comp 1B, if you're higher-higher, I guess :)

Tsk tsk! This is irrelevant. If you live in one of those outsourcee countries, such as India -- where being a software engineer is a very high-class and high-paying gig -- the standard of living you could expect would be good to very good. Of course people can be hired cheaper from other...

It's not the IRC servers' speeds that affect your unscrupulous-material-downloading speeds. It's rather the speed of the person/dcc-bot that you are downloading said morally-devoid materials from that is important. The IRC server provides you a venue for your text messages to bounce off the...

It doesn't seems anyone has mentioned the following point; it is definitely part and parcel of choosing what connection you want. If you choose cable, you are locked into _one_ provider. This means if they decide to chance your contract to whatever suits them (like Telstra did a couple years...

Well, instead of summoning the gods and using divine intervention to guess what codec it uses, why don't you check? Next time you're playing a TMD-ripped movie, if you're using windows media player, go to the File menu, then click on Properties, and it'll tell you in the field "Video codec."...