Is there a way I can change this? Pinky just helped me get through my first install of Linux, and I just got by to get up and running and try a couple things.

First off, it's way harder than some people make it sound! Lots of command lines that I will have to get used to. Using Ubuntu right now, and I do like it, just lots to learn from here on!

It's on the first WU, and I see that I have another device now. It's called localhost.localdomain, and I cannot change this. Is there something I should have done before I installed BOINC on the computer? Somewhere to change the name of the computer?

Note: I am the total Linux n00blet of all time. I handle Windows very well, but I'm so ingrained in Windows that everything about Linux is pretty much new to me. I mean, I had to ask where I typed all these commands people were talking about... it's THAT bad.

I'm planning to install it on another speedier PC so that I can actually play around Linux more without waiting forever. But before I get that one on some crunching, I want to make sure that I won't have a problem with 2 machines with the same localhost.localdomain name. I would really like to have a name that means something to me so I can identify them.

Any help much appreciated. Thanks!
Brian.