And who can forget Microsoft Services for Unix... with the offical abbriviation of SFU

I still prefer gnome-terminal. But I need to find a really good, fast, configurable, screen-like term. Or just type screen.

Here's your answer, install urxvt and set your icon to launch with the following... urxvt -bg black -fg white -sr -geometry 1024x47 -fn "xft:inconsolata" -e screen

heh after browsing to page 2... I am going to go fry me some venison I personally killed, butchered and packaged... I am thinking butter some garlic and red wine gravy. Yes I qute literaly held it in my arms as it died, and sung it to the Next World. The Hour of the Hunter comes for us all, but we must eat.

The upgrade was a bit rough - the GUI system update tools are very prone to breaking, often freezing to the point that only a forcequit can put things back to normal (I almost always use the command line because of that). Unfortunately the only way I knew of to update to 9.10 was using a GUI tool, which naturally broke, forcing me to restart the upgrade (although it was called a "partial upgrade".

I have never once gotten the GUI system update tools to work properly.
Use the CLI version like the Omnissiah intended.
1) Install update-manager-core if it is not already installed:
sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
2) Launch the upgrade tool:
sudo do-release-upgrade
3) Follow the on-screen instructions.

I did an upgrade from Jaunty... I had three issues...

1) I lost the system bell. (turns out its now blacklisted, a notice in the upgrade notes would have been nice)
2) Caps lock led no longer lights up (Bug in console-setup, affects Debian as well)
3) Num lock and scroll lock led's no longer light up.

That's the only things I noticed

I am kicking myself...

I gave away my baby... HP Laserjet 4+... with the postscript module,
jet direct, duplexer and maximum ram it would support.

I gave it to a youth organization that would actually put it to work.

I know my samsung ML-2851ND is faster, much lighter (the 4+ was roughly 60lbs);
but damn it, it has no soul...

I plug it in to charge it and I can use it as a usb drive.

I can simply copy videos I want to watch on the quite
lovely screen over no syncing required.

Ringtones is as easy as sliding a mp3 into the correct folder.

Amarock syncs with it, no hassles.

I'd like an iphone, but AT&T sucks compared to the coverage
I get with sprint, and I can roam on verizon too. (If you do
have to roam call and they will take it off your bill, or at
least they have done so for me in the past.)

All rights not explicitly granted to you are withheld to the sovereign body. A hint: That sovereign body is not the individual.

Actually, that is not entirely accurate.

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

I'll admit it's ignored like a redheaded step-child... but the intent is there.