Ubuntu

Ubuntu bits and bobs:

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in order to change the su password:

sudo su passwd

In order to install Beryl (the desktop manager) on a machine with an ATI Radeon card[1]

NB the Laptop R250 gfx card has too little memory to run Beryl in resolutions over 1024x1024 so you have to scale the resolution down to run Beryl, as it runs natively at 1400x1200.

To install VMware (NB After the installer fails, you install the vmware-any-any patch, then you go to /usr/local/src/vmware-server-distrib/bin and run vmware-config.pl) [2]

This is another howto [3]

These are the serial numbers:

9092W-Y06FF-2213H-4T4V9

9290R-YAPDU-28111-4VQ0W

9ATAR-Y8LFU-22M9M-4LL8H

9AT2W-YA7DC-2A491-4JNH1

9AE0T-YAQ4F-22J9N-4VP95

98DAX-Y86DC-22530-4LJUE

92XAW-Y824C-2AM10-4T008

90E2X-Y826G-20011-4VMLJ

92D89-Y0QFG-2A11N-4J5CH

92W2X-Y036A-2813N-4VHC8

(NB when running vmware it gave me shit about libpng, so I removed /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/ and it stopped giving me shit.

Then you can get around to putting your current Windows install into your VMware on Ubuntu [4]

This guy has another way to convert a current machine to a virtual machine on another PC [5]

In order to change desktop effects you do

alt-f2 (run), desktop-effects