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Linux, specifically Gentoo Linux.

nVidia for me. ATi's linux drivers totally suck. They rarely work at all.

The first part (CPU ITL C2D E4600) is just the name and model number. The second part (2.4 or 2.33) is the clock frequency, in GHz The third part (800 or 1333) is the front-side bus clock frequency, in MHz. The fourth part (2048 or 4MB) is the L2 cache. 2048 means 2048 kB, or 2MB. The one...

I'm cheap, I order "generic" RAM. You aren't assured what brand name it will be. Last time I ordered, it was Kingston.

A console is essentially a (somewhat) low-cost and very specialized PC. I prefer standard PCs though. They are upgradeable, customizable (in software and in hardware) and are better suited to most tasks other than gaming.

I buy from pccanada.com I find their prices excellent and they deliver to me the day after I place an order. That's only since I live so close though. I also think they only ship in Canada.

Lots of webcams work in linux, you should check if yours is supported (in your distros documentation somewhere). Unless its brand new or very rare, it should work. And of course you can't run .exe files (except through an emulator or Wine). Those are DOS and Windows executables. On linux...

Do I hate Microsoft? Not really, but I do have a few problems with them. Many people hate them because they are a "big evil company." I disagree. They are certainly big, but most certainly not wholly evil. Some governments have tried to sue them for "anti-competitive" behaviour, because they...

This is a basic introduction to the command line interface (CLI) in the GNU/Linux operating system. The default shell in Linux is bash, which stands for Bourne Again SHell. The name is a play on the older Bourne shell (sh) found on many Unix OSes. To begin, some useful terms: stdin -...