This worked pretty well for me although I made one change: I turned on anti-aliasng for all the Microsoft fonts.

Quoted: The first thing I noticed after I made that 'switch' from XP to Linux is the firefox's web fonts. It was way too ugly and extremely unpleasant to the eyes. I

You can use this w/mysql to enable automatic recovery when a master fails.

Quoted: Heartbeat works like this: you tell Heartbeat which computer owns a particular resource (which computer is the primary server), and the other computer will automatically be the backup server. You then configure the Heartbeat daemon running on the backup server to listen to the “heartbeats” coming from the primary server. If the backup server does not hear the primary server’s heartbeat, it initiates a failover and takes ownership of the resource.

Relevant to us.

Quoted: This sample chapter explains how the Heartbeat package enables you to build an inexpensive system that will fail over a resource from one server to another.

Maybe this version will work better with the wireless card on my HP laptop.

Quoted: Ubuntu the Gutsy Gibbon release of popular Linux distribution is officially out this morning You can download a live CD request a CD through the mail and users

Synergy on Ubuntu. Lets you control multiple computer with one keyboard/mouse.

Quoted: She said that "[w]e use Ubuntu internally but have no plans to distribute it outside of the company."

Quoted: This is a practical selection of the commands we use most often. Press <Tab> to see the listing of all available command (on your PATH). On my small home system, it says there are 2595 executables on my PATH. Many of these "commands" can be accessed from your favourite GUI front-end (probably KDE or Gnome) by clicking on the right menu or button. They can all be run from the command line. Programs that require GUI have to be run from a terminal opened under a GUI.

very old book, but it is free!