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The first thing you'll  want to do is create an Ubuntu Live USB , which is nothing more than a flash drive that has a copy of Linux installed on it, which you can use to boot straight into Linux a lot quicker than using a CD. If you really want to get fancy, you can create a persistent Ubuntu flash drive that saves your settings. The only problem with this method is that not every PC supports booting from a flash drive, and older PCs are not only more likely to have problems, but they are the ones that are less likely to boot from a flash drive—so you’ll want to keep a Live CD around as well. Tip: You can also put a copy of Windows 7 on a flash drive, which is very helpful for using System Restore to fix an unbootable PC. Change or Reset Your Password Perhaps one of the easiest ways to use Linux to fix Windows is when you’re trying to recover a forgotten password—all you have to do is boot it up and run a few commands, and your password will be reset. It’s really a...

We (and our ancestors) have been manipulating our surroundings for a very long time, through the creation of tools, buildings, sacred objects, stories and rituals, and so on — let’s call them “artifacts”: everything that we produce to make our life easier, more comfortable, more enjoyable and aesthetic. Throughout most of our history, our artifacts were pretty rudimentary — the stone age took a very long time. We’ve been adapting materials and techniques, as new technologies became available. Through ingenuity and our artifacts, we’ve been discovery and inventing in a continually accelerating pace. Technological break-troughs (for example in the wide-spread use of bronze): - led to new tools, objects and functions - led to new formal vocabularies, in other words aesthetics - led to new social organizations: nomadic cultures to settlements, to cities, to states, to the industrialization, to the information-based global society today From the Stone Age until the Medi...