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With the following script you can install Firefox (version 3.5  or version 3.6)  on your ubuntu box.

I have checked this script on ubuntu 8.10 umpc, Ubuntu 8.10 and Ubuntu 9.04. This script should also work with Ubuntu 9.10, If you use this script to install Firefox3.5/6 on Ubuntu 9.10 please leave a comment to this post.

On the VAIO SZ71E/B with Ubuntu 8.04 or Ubuntu 8.10 the headphones/earphones doesn't work. If you insert your headphones into the headphones jack Ubuntu ignores them and the sound continues to play exclusively through the speakers.

Sometimes  could be useful to get automatic access to your Ubuntu box.

Imagine you want a default user that can access the Inernet, You could create the user with the specifics authorizations then with the autologin nobody of the users of your Ubuntu box needs to authenticate.

On my desktop PC I had Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope and I was using Evolution as e-mail client. Some days ago I bought an Acer Aspire One and I installed Ubuntu 8.10 UMPC. The version of Evolution in  Ubuntu 8.10 is not totally compatible with the version installed with Ubuntu 9.04 and when I imported my mails I received the following message:

In Ubuntu/Hardy you could have this error using xargs, this error is due to the findutils package. To solve this problem you could take the package from the Ubuntu release Intrepid.

Open (as root) the /etc/apt/sources.list file with your preferred editor

# sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list