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Intel pwns AMD with Core 2, plus AMD (and ATI) are very lacking in support for open-source. *Shudders at memories of ATI graphics cards and linux*. My advice is to go Intel (not quad-core if you're gaming -- there is very little support for multiple CPUs among games) and get a good nVidia card. Mainly because no-one will care about VIA until it becomes big enough to seriously compete with Inet and AMD.

Yeah... I do have a drive that works like U3 (which a friend gave to me), but it seems that it is like, "fake" U3 and isn't recognised by universal customizer as featured in that article.

Go Europe! (Sheffield, UK)

w00t! agreed. Creative Zen MicroPhoto 4GB w00t! agreed. Creative Zen MicroPhoto 4GB

and...

A 1 meg processor? Hmm...

no srsly though, can we have some feedback (error messages etc.) If you are getting a kernel panic (absolutely nothing happening -- screen frozen etc, sometimes lights on keyboard flashing) it is probably a problem wiht hardware: try unplugging all usb devices and booting, and then pugging them back in one by one until you hit the one that was causing the error. Have you checked your cd for defects? It might be that it is damaged/corrupted in some way, in which case you'd need to re-download/re-burn or order a free copy from ubuntu via ShipIt. Make sure your motherboard, chipset, graphics/sound card, drives etc are supported (just google their name with "linux" and have a look what comes up).

That's not what I want, I want to make a NON-u3 drive so that it has u3 on it, not to get rid of u3 on a u3 drive (why would you do that?!)

Hi all, Does anyone here know how to make a normal non-U3 USB pen/drive/whatever into a U3 drive? (Check wikipedia and hak.5 if you don't know what U3 is) I got the impression from various forums on other sites that it involved doing something with the boot sector but I didn't really understand what.

I don't know quite what you mean. If you wwant to make a flash movie I'd recommend Adobe Flash. If you don't want to pay a load of money for it I'm sure there are pirated versions loose on t3h interwebs (not endorsed or supported in any way).

http://www.cipher.maths.soton.ac.uk

I use php, mainly because I run linux and honestly don't think I could face the prospect of installing and configuring asp.net onto my computer (which is what I use for testing)

I would go for ubuntu, because it's the easiest to use. If you want to try something more challenging, I recommend fedora or opensuse, then even more challenging are slackware and gentoo.

Possibly because it's a dell.