Want XVideo support for playing movies on Ubuntu with a RadeonHD card? Add the following repos for the latest GIT packages.
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
Add public key
“For when the metal ones come for you!”
http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/49f683185a0a9991/49f638247116125d/62ddab94
My Fav part starts at 1:20 “very thin ice” 
Hopefully I will be seeing myself shortly at this intersection.
Love your treadmill, but wish you could get outside more? Well, enjoy both with the Speedfit – mobile treadmill. Probably from the makers of the ‘Solar Powered Flashlight’ 
Was looking for a way to control runlevels in Ubuntu as with a standard INIT SYSV based system. I found this document that explains how to make this happen:
http://caulfield.info/emmet/2008/03/add-a-textonly-runlevel-to-ubu.html
Just ran across this today and didnt realize there was a way to have just an application appear in an RDP session. Appears to use a client installed in windows to do this called appropriately, Seamless RDP. http://www.cendio.com/seamlessrdp/seamlessrdp.zip
Idea obtained from this handy article:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SeamlessVirtualization