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Wireless Not Working after the updates:

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Panels

gconftool-2 --shutdown
rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel
pkill gnome-panel

DVD Playback:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2 libdvdread3
sudo apt-get install w32codecs

Manually configure a wep network

sudo iwconfig eth2 essid MyNet
sudo iwconfig eth2 key xxxxxxxxxx
sudo ifconfig eth2 up
sudo dhclient3 eth2

wireless printer

ipp://192.168.1.44:631/ipp/P1 ref:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=516747&page=2

FLASH issues

sudo apt-get remove swfdec-mozilla mozilla-plugin-gnash adobe-flashplugin flashplugin-nonfree
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

USB Force Mount
sudo /bin/bash
mkdir /media/disk
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/disk -o force

Wireless

1.Download teh drivers(bcmwl-kewl-source)from http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/restricted/b/bcmwl/bcmwl-kernel-source_5.10.91.9+bdcom-0ubuntu4_i386.deb
2.start restricted drivers:sudo /etc/init.d/linux-restricted-modules-common start
3.If teh drivers arent listed and not getting activated
sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe wl

Alternate option Add modprobe wl to /etc/rc.local, before exit 0

To change or set default file saving or “save as” format for new files in OpenOffice.org:

1.Launch any OpenOffice.org application such as OpenOffice Writer.
2.Click on Tools and then Options.
3.Expand the Load/Save section in the left pane by clicking the + (plus sign).
4.Click on General under the Load/Save section.
5.In the area labeled as “Default file format” near the bottom of the dialog window, select the type of document you want, for example, Text Document for Writer files, in the Document Type drop-down list.
6.To the right dropdown list labeled as “Always save as”, change or select the format as “Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP”.
7.Repeat the above 2 steps for other documents such as spreadsheets or presentations that you want to save in Microsoft Office file format, and select the appropriate default save as format for them.
8.Click OK to save the settings.
9.From now on, whenever you want to save a document, the default format will be .doc, .xls or .ppt and other Microsoft Office file formats and extensions.

http://isohunt.com/release/359225/ Bios flash utility
http://linux.dell.com/files/ubuntu/hardy/iso-images/ 8.04 Dell image
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/unetbootin-windows-latest.exe
http://www.wallysweb.com/webkinz.html