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Hello, I am Bret and I am a cs student that loves anime. Anyway, I have been doing some looking into secure shell...and I have wanted to know a little more about it...it seems to be pretty neat...I would really like to know more about this and I think that it should be fairly easy when using linux as the operating system on my computer since ssh is built in to most distros. currently. I have been looking into ways to access files that I have a hard time accessing without a secure shell...firewalls sure are interesting. Everything about networking sparks my interest so I want to learn a bunch about it. I absolutely love computers. I have three right now...one is a piece of crap, the second desktop was built by me, and the laptop I just got about two weeks ago. My desktop is pretty sweet...it has an Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe, AMD Athlon 64 (AM2) 3800+ (single core ), 1.0GB PC 6400 DDR2 ram (Corsair XMS2), 300GB SATAII 3.0Gb/s Seagate HDD, 500W PSU Antec Smart Power 2.0, Zalman CNPS 9500 (socket AM2) cooler for CPU, EVGA 7900GT KO n584 chip, and lots of cool accessories. My lappy (that is the name I gave it after my favorite online entertainment site: homestarrunner.com... strong bad's laptop is called the lappy 486, so I decided that would be a fitting nickname for my laptop...even though mine pwns the lappy 486 while it is sleeping!) has 1.0GB So-DimmII 533MHz Ram, 80GB Sata 1.5Gb/s HDD, AMD Turion TL-60 (That's right, I gots me teh new dual core Turion processor), nvidia GeForce Go 7600. This is the new HP Dv9000z and it rocks, let me tell you! I am impressed with this laptops performance...it can handle everything...and it still looks like its lounging around...and it's silent too, but somehow it manages to not get very hot...Great Big Salute To you HP. After a long and toilsome fight, I managed to install suse 10.1 on both computers in a dual boot with suse/windowsXPpro and they can both get on the internet (that is a must since I am an internet junky). Anyway, as you can tell I love computers. I have been tinkering with them since I was just a wee lad. We still have our old 386 Dell machine out in the garage...and I'll bet it still works great...this was made back in the day when Dell computers were reliable and wouldn't break down on you. So that gives you an idea of how young I am, since that was my first computer that I remember using. Dos was great wasn't it? Anyway, I have been slowly attempting to evade the Microsoft tax...I am starting to build computers and I am putting Linux on them. One of the other things I wish to learn is how to install gentoo...I know where their site is, but I just haven't gotten around to it yet, so until then, the install disc I burned is just going to have to stay in my cd case. Well, I guess that about wraps things up. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask me in a PM or reply to this thread, I am full of random information...and who knows, maybe you will find some of it helpful.