The Heir has made further strides on his Linuxtop.  We did record some more of the upcoming episode, so we made sure that the Heir's adventures in Linux didn't distract from that.  But the Heir actually got Wifi to work, and he was amazed that he got precise instructions that were spot-on.  These were files that didn't come with the distro but which he had to go out and find for himself, with help of the web address he saw in the startup and shutdown screens, and that's kernel.org.  He had to go to the distro's wiki for info he didn't get at kernel.org, but he installed what they asked him to, and it worked out of the proverbial box.  His first apt-get foray, and which stands him in good stead for when he gets clamz.  And I the Mentor am plugged through that Wifi writing about this that he configured.  He also tightened up Samba a bit on the security, and he wants to do research on some other good security tips on Samba that seem simple and low-risk enough and applies to his system.  The Heir will look again at what I shared here regarding his other Linux tasks, but he believes that the last task is the CD/DVD drive.  He thinks it's broken, and it's also not a blu-ray contrary to what he was led to believe online with his specific unit.  So he wants to see about getting a CD/DVD/Blu-ray internal drive that fits in his unit, and he hopes that getting drivers and/or firmware should be just as easy as it was for Wifi.  The Heir's also not surprised that Brooklyn dropped yet another one by getting ahead in the first quarter, getting tied in the second quarter, and staying consistently behind in the last two quarters.  They really need to work on damage control for when they get behind in the score, so they can regain the lead at least once per game, because they can't always count on always being in the lead.

"Brooklyn needs to work on regaining any leads they lost in a given game, and not always count on being in the lead the entire game.  That's my constructive criticism."