Ubuntu server install woes

This weekend I made a second attempt installing the Ubuntu server.

Unsuccessful

But after some tinkering and some diagnostics I found that the ISO that I burned / used in the install was not to problem. It was hard drive. The hard drive that I am trying to install Ubuntu on is dying. It has enough life in it to partition properly but try and store anything on it and you start getting I/O errors.

Now that I know the cause of the problem, I'm going to move a lot of data to my external hard drive. This will free up one of my hard drives so I can successfully install Ubuntu.

LAMP and Samba Server here I come!

OpenID

There's a lot of buzz around the net talking about OpenID.

To be quite honest I haven't hear too much about it other than the fact that you'll use one username and password for all your sites you have an account on.

I'm sure there are many other features and advantages to using OpenID.

Here are a few sites that will help get you up to speed.

http://openid.net/
https://www.myopenid.com/
http://iwantmyopenid.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID