ubuntu

    One thing that I have really missed in playing with songbird is Global Hotkeys for changing the song, etc. This functionality is available for Windows, but Linux (and Mac) users still have to wait if we want official support. There is a workaround, though, thanks to GeekShadow's addon Command Line Support. This allows for all kinds of clever hackery, including global Hotkeys.

I used UNetBootin to install Karmic (Ubuntu 9.10) to my laptop, but I kept running into the error "Failed to unmount partitions"

The installer needs to commit changes to partition tables, but cannot do so becaue partitions on the following mount points could not be unmounted:

/cdrom

Please close any applications using these mount points

Would you like the installer to try to unmount these partitions again?"

At first blush, it would seem that those wanting the latest stable python, 2.6, would have to compile it themselves (or so python.org would indicate). Fortunately for us, that process, which is at best annoying, and at worst long and complicated, is spared us by our friends over at Launchpad, and their "Personal Package Archives".