Hi Rick!
Thank you for the translation in the previous message - perhaps I'll learn a
thing or two here 

> Firefox nem, should have been Firefox ne.
> (That is, not Firefox).
> The excess M was a typo.  (Furschlugginer cramped
> laptop keyboard).

hehe :)

> And I need to do this from an OLR at home, I'm using
> too much time online.  Wish me good luck getting it
> set up on a laptop using Windows 7 (ugh), and another
> one in Linux (!!!!! 11.04 from a web DL and from a later
> magazine, has me very confused.
> Why is the command line so hard to get at, and why doesn't
> it seem to know any of the few commands that I do know, like
> LS for DIR ?

I take it you are using the default Ubuntu install of 11.04, with Unity window
manager?

If so, you should ask Andy in the Main msg. area if you can just "apt-get
xfce4" to change to the XFCE4 window manager.  It's a really nice one. I used
xfce4 when I was running Gentoo Linux.

If not that, then what you want to look for is 'terminal'.  It's in the
accessories menu under Gnome and Unity is based on Gnome.. so you may luck out
there :)

Take care,
Janis

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