I've been considering learning it. Lots of great info, cross-platform and popular. What is to not like about that?

Don't throw away that old router yet (especially if it has dd-wrt or the like). The reason why I say that it allows you to set up an intranet (private network). Why would you need such a thing. Say you want to set up several computers, but did not want the network traffic to hit your internet network and slow it down. For example a gaming network. We are now using an intranet for the home automation network. The real world does not need to see or have access to what we are up to either.
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What Is Docky?
Docky is an advanced shortcut bar that sits at the bottom, top, and/or sides of your screen. It provides easy access to some of the files, folders, and applications on your computer, displays which applications are currently running, holds windows in their minimised state, and more.

To install Docky from a terminal, use the commands below

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:docky-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docky...

We have moved computers and now I can’t connect.
My wife has the Cisco Linksys wireless adapter in her office and she connects to it with her Apple.
My daughter has a Windoze box in the front room. When I insert a WLAN wireless adapter into my daughters machine, her Wireless Network Connection shows full power connection on a network named indigo.
I am running Fedora 11 on my box in the back room. When I inset an Alvarion Breezenet into the PCMCIA/PCI adapter and boot the...

Well ever since I was a young kid I was interested in computers. After all my dad was fixing them for people all the time. When I was about 10 my dad gave me a very old IBM Laptop. It barley had enough ram to run windows xp and only 4 gigs of hard drive space. But it was enough to get me started. Then when I was 13 he bought me a brand new Toshiba Satellite. That is when I became interested in programming. I happend to find a very old MS-Dos programming book and I started writing batch files. Then...