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I know I'm perilously close to be completely-off-the-damn-topic, but what really gets me is the fertilization of lawns. People use herbicides to keep weeds down, which kills off clover -- so grass mixes don't even contain clover anymore. Clover is a nitrogen-fixing plant; a lawn with a decent amount of clover doesn't need to be fertilized as much (if at all).

So am I but if you like gardening humour you may like God and St Francis Discussing lawns.

Falcon

"Not sure if samba needs root for anything other than binding to the ports it uses and accessing files as specific users"

Yea, I think he needs to RTFM

Technically routing and NATing are not the same thing, but meh I'm probably the only one who cares about that these days anyway. The rest of the points are valid, for some strange reason I must have hallucinated some confusion in the reply to your OP...I usually manage to resist posting when I've been awake for 24+ hours. Anyway I'll go back to my hole now...

This one's a bit elderly, but I found it handy for wrapping my head around Linux.

NTLDR is a pretty special piece of code.

http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/windows/ntwsguide/nt wsbooting.html

214432 bytes contains read only versions of NTFS and FAT. Oddly enough, if you have a SCSI card which doesn't have Bios support, it can use the normal NT driver if you rename it NTBOOTDD.SYS, so it must contain stubs for big chunks of the kernel and IO subsystem, presumably in single threaded mode. On 99.999% of PC's it has a built in driver which switches back to V86 mode to use the Bios to read sectors. It also knows how to understand the registry, so it can load the device drivers which are needed ultra early in the system boot.

But adding support for another filesystem inside that is basically impossible. I'm suprised that it's not NTFS only to be honest, since they could tailor NTFS to make the boot process simpler, whereas FAT was a pre existing standard.

The full description of the speeds and characteristics of the lines can be found on any number of technical websites. I cribbed the speeds from Made IT. CompTech have a nice intro/overview as well.

I agree with parent. Setting up at home is a great way to learn. Try it on several different machines with different configurations if possible. Getting hardware to work on Linux isn't as bad as it used to be, and you really don't have to recompile the kernel anymore, either.

There are a few good books availalble. O'Reilly books, theres a book called "how linux works" and i believe even one called "Linux for New users" or something (neither of those by oreilly) and here's a website i found doing quick google search: here it looks a little dated but should still work for you

also you can find a ton of information on whatever youre trying to do. when i was learning IP chains i simply googled and found many pages and had it running in no time. and i think samba comes with an old version of an orielly book in html format with it.

Well, aside from your comment indicating you to be a total jackass, there is actually a good reason behind the CTRL-ALT-DEL sequence in NT. It's a security feature.

"The CTRL-ALT-DEL key combination in NT disables user mode programs so a trojan program cannot intercept the user's name and password during the logon process. No user mode programs can be run until a valid logon has occurred. This is called restricted user mode. The CTRL-ALT-DEL key sequence indicates that there is a physically connected keyboard that the keystrokes are coming from. During the logon process, the Winlogon service passes the user's point of authentication, name, and password to the client/server (CSR) subsystem. The CSR passes the information to the security reference monitor which checks the Security Accounts Manager (SAM) database against the received information to see if the user is authentic. If so, a valid access token is generated and returned back down the line to the processes that sent the information."

Read more here.