Songbird in Jaunty

sudo apt-get remove libvisual-0.4-plugins

Link Linux Documents/etc folders with Windows

ln -s /mnt/windows/Users/joeljohnson/Documents/ /home/joel/Documents
ln -s /mnt/windows/Users/joeljohnson/Pictures/ /home/joel/Pictures
ln -s /mnt/windows/Users/joeljohnson/Music/ /home/joel/Music

Mount NTFS

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

add:
"/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs defaults 0 0"

Ubuntu 8.10 JDK

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin

Ubuntu Update of Wireless drivers for T61p

sudo apt-get install subversion
svn co https://svn.madwifi-project.org/madwifi/trunk
cd trunk/
sudo make
sudo make install

restart your computer and now you can delete the ~/trunk folder

MS Office 2007 Converter

odf-converter-integrator

I'm hoping it'll work! I'm still installing...

MacOSX VirtualBox - Fail

Many people have been able to get MacOSX running in VMWare. So I decided to try to get it running in VirtualBox using that same image... Well... it hangs up during boot. :( It was worth a shot!