1. Acer Aspire R1600, 1 GB RAM, Intel Atom 230 CPU, 160 GB drive, Invidia Ion LE Integrated video, many USB ports, and an eSATA port (bought cheap at BestBuy)
2. Hook up a KVM cable to it, and set the KVM to use the R1600
3. Boot the pre-installed Windows XP, and use TrueImage to make a full drive back-up (just in case I later decide I want to run Windows)
4. Put Ubuntu 9.10 on a flash drive.  Insert my blue flash drive into the USB connector on the corner with the power switch, with the writing facing away from the power switch.

Two women from different social strata, who hadn't seen each other for several months, ran into each other.  Here is their dialog:

Awhile back, Windows XP started doing the hardware auto-detect thing for no reason I could discern, and it reported it couldn't find "Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for High Definition Audio".

So I Googled around and found pointers to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888111, but that turns out to be a really old hot-fix and it wouldn't install on my XP-SP3 because the patch was created before SP3.

Windows asks, "Do you want to move or copy files from this zone?" every time I move/copy a file/folder from one folder to another on a network folder.

To get rid of this message:

Control Panel/Internet Options. 

Select  the Security tab; choose "Local intranet"; press the "Sites" button, 

I've run into multiple issues using gnome-globalmenu.  I like it, but it doesn't play well with others.

Its latest offense is that it causes the gnome screenlets manager to die on start-up with:

Attempt to add property GtkMenuBar::local to class after it was derived

Just removing globalmenu from the panel isn't enough to get past the issue.  You have to delete (or rename) /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libglobalmenu-gnome.so

There's a nice panel applet for Gnome named gnome-globalmenu, that give you title bar behavior similar to OS X.  Unfortunately, it seems to calculate the application name for the menu by scanning your main menu, looking at run commands, so it displays the title "CD/DVD Burner" instead of "Nautilus" or "File Browser" when a Nautilus window is activated.

The work-around is to right-click on your main menu, and edit the menus, and change the command executed by the CD/DVD Burner accessory to be "gvfs-open burn:/// ".