PC/Other

Good instructions for a particular method here:
http://www.schoonzie.com/using-the-ubiquity-firefox-extension-to-create-drupal-nodes

Followed but not currently using because of after installing the command by phoque command Ubiquity threw (apparently harmless) errors, and the process for modifying blog URLs was not clear (as in, even just listing the ones you've entered).

Wireless suddenly stopped working on my mother's Ubuntu-ized HP laptop.

It's the lousy hardware all by itself:
http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-11226-hp-dv6000-wireless-problem

Stefan Freudenberg:
Hi. I have setup an Ekiga account. Do you have something like that, too?

Benjamin Melançon:
Ekiga?
Stefan Freudenberg

It's a voip service.

Benjamin Melançon
http://www.sip-communicator.org/
looks like one of my better bets on Mac
and given proof of Skype's evilness, I'm all for it

Half of Agaric, at least, has installed these plugins for Mozilla-based browsers:

When taking over a site it's always good to check for any domain names the client might have forgotten about. Although shared hosting (or managing multiple clients on a dedicated server as Agaric does) will show all the domains pointing to a single IP address, it's still a useful way to look through and see which may be related, and should follow the site to its new home.

A number of services will do this for you. A good free one is:
http://www.myipneighbors.com/

Resolution

now i'm engaged in my annual search for a good tabbed text editor
actually i just gave up

km:
hahahaha
I'm somewhat pleased with gedit

benjamin melançon:
another reason to switch to linux

km:
:-)

yeah if you think about it, programmers need to build these things, and programmers use Linux

benjamin melançon:
... or just use darwinports for now

http://gedit.darwinports.com/

http://f-spot.org/Main_Page
- may be safest-- as the default on Ubuntu, this should be expected to be the one that at the least has the most migration scripts written for it eventually to better options!

RawTherapee
http://www.rawtherapee.com/

"THIS CARD CANNOT BE USED"

I cursed the card that I picked up cheap at instead of my camera

apologies to Taiwan... the 4GB SD card (Secure Digital High Capacity Memory Card) from Taiwan, and more recently Abacus 24-7 didn't work 'cause the Nikon D50 only accepts up to 2GB. Blast.

Note to everyone: don't take a new 4 or 8 GB SD card with your Nikon D50 camera up a gorgeous mountain and expect to be able to take pictures.

Now to get a card reader and use the card as a 4 gigabyte USB thumb drive.

Resolution

Installing Ubuntu Hardy Heron on a new HP Pavilion dv6910us

[UPDATE: Wifi issues fixed finally with upgrade to Intrepid Ibix]

could not resolve security.ubuntu.com

At least one other person temporarily got that error back in 2007:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=441877

http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php

Left the below comment here http://commandline.org.uk/linux/2008/jan/13/free-or-fight-your-phone/

Network question.