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Ever wanted to build your own electric guitar? How would you cut out the body? Well, you could do this by hand. It would take a considerable amount of time and effort to do so. Or, you could cut it using your own CNC router.

What is a CNC router? Well, let’s not get too deep into details of what a CNC router is right now. Just watch this video and see one of the many things a CNC router can do.  [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlGu51uqNgQ]

You ever wonder why some people have the “strangest” laugh? It’s infectious, isn’t it? Well, a friend of mine sent me a link to watch this video on YouTube entitled “Dad At The Comedy Barn”. It is nothing short of hilarious! So funny it cannot be explained in words. You have to see this… er… hear it, I mean. The funny part begins about a minute or two after the video begins. Trust me, it’s worth the wait!

A couple years ago, I tinkered with the Linux OS, but for one purpose only, and it turned out to be way more effort to learn than I was willing to put in at the time. The last few days I have really been amazed to see how far things have come.

The last couple days, I have been using a Linux distribution called Ubuntu. I find it every bit as good as, if not better than, any Windows OS thus far. I am only inches away from migrating to Linux completely!

Well, today I decided to learn a little about Linux. I don’t know exactly where to begin, so, I searched google for the term “linux”. Sounds logical, huh? Let’s see where that gets me…

Well, I came across linux.com. Once there, I started reading about some of the different linux distributions. What I found really interested me, a particular Linux distribution called DSL (Damn Small Linux). DSL is a linux distribution which is small enough to fit on a business card sized CD, and run on a machine as small as a 486 with 16Mb of RAM. This interests me because I think it would be cool to set up a Linux system to boot from a USB drive.

As it turns out, you can even run DamnSmallLinux (DSL) from within Microsoft Windows using a type of virtual machine. This is a good way to check out DSL without a large investment of time and energy.