What was that you said? You said British Petroleum is criminally negligent?

Extremely expensive, but extremely good. As a Topographic Intel Analyst in the US Marines (our job was called Topo by us), we georeferenced images a LOT. The best tool by far is ERDAS Imagine. It's best to have source maps that are already georectified, but it's not necessary. Another tool that MAY be able to take care of this is ArcInfo. It's also an expensive suite of programs, but it also works well. As far as a service that can get the images scanned for you, you may be able to contact an architect. They frequently have large (36"-48") scanners used to scan old blueprints so they can digitize them. Buying the equipment yourself is probably cost prohibitive.

Which providers? Sounds good.

If your Windows PC(s) are all networked with your Linux PC, then just format it Ext3, share it out with Samba, and let Windows read it from over the network.

Going to be honest, never touched Vista unless I had to and I haven't yet touched Windows 7. I want to be able to do anything I want to with my OS, so WinXP was the last M$ OS I'll buy. With WindowsXP, multi-monitor support on multiple graphics cards works simply and reliably. In Linux, it works 'ok', but sometimes to get a good multi-monitor setup, it involves writing scrips to use 'xrandr' during boot up. That doesn't keep me from using Linux, far from it, but Windows does do multi-monitor support better. As stated before, I only have Windows anecdotal evidence up to WinXP.

That's incorrect. I'm a huge Linux fan, but Windows has the multi-monitor down pat. Even when cards are from different MFGRs. Intel on-board + an NVidia card will display just fine. Windows will see all of them and display all of them. In Linux, on my laptop, gnome displays them just fine, but they're the same card of course.

Honestly, it sounds like an ad that I got recently to use as an example. I'm a Fmr. Marine, so obviously I talk to a lot of my Marine buddies a lot and I'm in a few USMC groups. I do see USMC Advertisements on the site, so I have no doubt they datamined that information. Doesn't matter to me if they do it, but to each their own.

I agree wholeheartedly. I was just knocking the person before me down a notch or 2. Apparently using NFS shares is 'hacking'. I would prefer rsync by FAR over a simple NFS share. It provides redundancy as well as maintains deletions, etc.

And when the server hosting your NFS share dies, so does your entire home directory on every PC. Check and mate.

Fail Fail Fail

Prolly

Someone was going to...

It's a crappy economy right now. Your job is to implement what your boss asks and the REAL ethics question is whether you feed your family or not. In an idea world, tell your boss to go shove it. Right now, IMO you need to say "I'm on it, boss." and continue on implementing packet shaping, et al.

I used my Asus eee 1000HA as my first foray into the Linux world and chose to do so with Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex. Out of the box, my wifi did NOT work, but it was a single download and 4 typed commands away using ath5k drivers available for free online. My ONLY ISSUE with Ubuntu is the screen size of the eee screen. I do like the default 2x bars on the screen, one at the top and one at the bottom. The vertical size of the screen does make it very hard to click some of the buttons at the bottom of dialogue boxes. This is easily fixed by adding hide arrows to the panels so you can shove them off the screen when they're not needed. You can hide the bars if you want as well, so that's also an option.

Except for the wifi, EVERYTHING so far has worked straight out of the box. I reformatted the second partition as Ext3 and copied some of my MP3 collection to it. With the proper drivers, you can access your Ext3 partitions and drives from Windows if needed. Ubuntu will read the windows partition automatically, so you don't even need that.

In my opinion, slapping Ubuntu on it was the best thing I could have ever done with it... It's SO much more responsive than Windows was.