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Sometimes people are idiots, sometimes companies are stupid. More often than not Governments are ridiculous, but the Italian government takes the biscuit on this.
What the hell gives them the right to try and not only police the internet, but also remove the free-speech that the internet gives? They are currently in the process of proposing a law which would do just that.
Simply put for those too lazy to read the news article, if you don’t like something someone has put on the net, you can complain to them, and if they don’t change it, they are fined £8500 ($17000 or 10,000 euros). Doesnt matter if its offensive, or you just disagree. So if a teenage blogger posts about a bully for example, and then doesnt go online for a few days, he could come back to a nasty supprise. Worse than that, they are even trying to make it compulsory that the government controls when you can actually go on the internet.
If they actually bring this law in, First thing i’m gonna do is make a free-blogging site for em. With NO personal details stored. To hell with the amount of spam I’ll get from that, The internet is free.

How to install ubuntu to boot off a SD card.
(Based on netbooks with built in card readers)
You will need:
Sd Card (8GB recommended if you actually plan to use it as the main OS)
A USB card reader for the SD card
Either a USB live key or a CD reader for ubuntu install
Grub installed on either a bootable usb stick or a bootable HDD/SSD
Patience - (Very necessary)
(This guide assumes you have GRUB already installed on a bootable drive, you can use something like puppylinux to do this)

This guide for ease of reading follows the following pattern for identifing files/folders
(location)/folder/file.ext
(SD)/boot/grub/menu.lst

Backup /boot on your hdd <- VERY IMPORTANT IF YOU ALREADY HAVE OPERATING SYSTEMS INSTALLED ON OTHER DRIVES
Put the SD card in the reader, and install ubuntu to the SD card this way.

Once installed boot into the SD card through the USB adapter.

edit (SD)/etc/initramfs-tools/modules and add

mmc_block
mmc_core
sdhci

This adds in support for built in SD readers. Now to build in the support into the kernels. As root put the below into a terminal (you can use “sudo su” to become root in a kernal)

update-initramfs -u

Now support is loaded into the kernels.

Copy (SD)/boot/ to (HDD)/boot (WARNING! ONLY COPY THE FILES, NOT THE /GRUB FOLDER!)

Now to add your SD card to the GRUB boot menu
edit (HDD)/boot/grub/menu.lst and append an entry in the style of the following

title SD CARD BOOT
uuid faa9b183-fff2-4a01-b855-8e982f2ea71f
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-14-generic root=UUID=faa9b183-fff2-4a01-b855-8e982f2ea71f ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-14-generic
quiet

Things to change with the above
uuid needs to be changed to your sd-cards uuid
within kernel, you need to make sure of the filename (kernel version) and the UUID
the same with initrd