Don't fear the penguin...

Ok, so I had intended to dump Vista in favor of XP for performance reasons.
Turns out that Vista doesn't suck too badly after a ram upgrade, though I'm still not a huge fan.
I had also tried an Ubuntu live cd and was impressed that it almost worked.
The wifi didn't work automagically on the very first boot, and by the time I got back to it to check it out, it would no longer boot. I had used Wubi to install on virtual discs, and apparently grub puked and it could no longer read the fstab'ish entries.
If that makes it sound to the non-linux community like I know Linux, let me disabuse you of that notion right now.
Linux and I have fought a running battle for over a decade.
I loaded zipslack on a crash box at work when I supported Win95, just out of pure spite.
In those days, if you got the mouse working in X, you felt like you'd accomplished something.
Fast forward to now:
I was reluctant to risk my work files on a dual boot setup, so I grabbed a new 120g drive from the local shop. Popped it in, booted to the cd, let Ubuntu have it's way with the new drive, and answered the few obligatory questions.
Went and grabbed some coffee, smoked a smokem, and came back to my shiny new desktop.
Sound and wifi weren't happening.
Rather than type "man man" in terminal, I cheated and just googled.
Loaded the restricted drivers and let synaptic go grab the firmware to activate the wifi card.
Also grabbed WifiRadar and Kwifimanager, since the gnome wifi applet is a joke, and I'm an old man who needs his gui.
Wango-tango and up comes the wifi.
Dumped the wired ethernet, and started googling for the sound issue.
Found what looked like reasonable edits for the config file, copy/pasted them, rebooted - bam!
I now have audio.
Feeling emboldened, I then loaded compiz so that I could have a sexy desktop "cube" and it again worked without fuss.
The only thing that sucks, is that I now have to repeat this, since I failed to install XP first and I really don't feel like doing the dance required for a post-linux dual boot.
Not a huge deal, since I have nothing on this drive other than the OS.
If Acclaim would do a linux port of 2Moons, I would dump windows entirely.
Currently, I have Transmission downloading an iso, several browser windows open, Evolution is running, RhythmBox is playing Black Betty from Virgin's streaming server, Brasero is open but idle - waiting to burn the iso, and I'm remoted into our server on the other desktop panel, polling timeclocks and doing server maintenence.
Just checked System Monitor - cpu is humming along at 25-45%, and mem usage is solid at 34% of 2 gig.
I don't think I ever saw mem usage dip below a gig in Vista once I bumped it to 2 gig.
I just checked the kb function keys - even *they* work.
My great fear now is that some annoyance will crop up at some point for which I know 7 different kludges in windows, but whichs completely baffle me in linux, and I'll slink back to XP with my tail tucked between my legs.
So far, Epic Win.

Nah, it sounds like you are there - you are free.
I believe that you can use your integrated webcam too - look for a program called 'cheese'

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Q1-
3. Will the data on my iPod be preserved?
No. You will receive a replacement iPod that will not contain any of your data, songs, or after-market personalizations. Before you submit your iPod for service, it is your responsibility to keep a separate backup copy of the data stored on your iPod and reinstall that data.
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18 point Helvetica Bold .
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Ian.

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