How to use pidgin with facebook chat
Java and Facebook . This problems seem to be with people who have 64-bit computers. Perhaps you just need the Sun or blackdown version of Java? I'm not sure how complete the GNU version is...which is what it sounded like you have. Could this be your solution? -- Java page at help.ubuntu.com
Ubuntu File Permissions Tutorial
Discussion of vfat filesystems and the trash folder
Discussion of allowing multiple user to mount partitions and accessing vfat.
In System - Admin - Users and Groups I've added the group audio (and assigned users), when I close and restart this application this group is no more listed but in terminal command "groups" tell me that audio group exists, my user is also under "audio" in /etc/group.
Any idea? -- This guy seems to have the same bug?
discussion about using ntfs-3g to read your windows partition -- This one is more advanced. You may want to wait until you are more experienced...
Discussion about creating a gui for editing fstab (the file which specifies filesystems to mount)
"Discussion" (complaint) about fedora using the sync option on removable drives (destroyed the guy's flash card).
group manager should hide system groups. If they implemented this, here is your problem. M$ attitude "easy to use" my ass. Isn't it great when people hide things so you can't do essential things??? This is why I have been so down on GUIs, because nearly everyone implementing them has this bullshit attitude. There could be GUI designs which would be great for both novice and experienced users, but this just ruins it.
pmount a program to allow users to mount different filesystems without entries in fstab
pysdm . A gui program (GTK based) to help configure hard disk mount points. (appears to be in the ubuntu repository?) ---
kfstab - KDE has one too.