Ok, I have a great idea for one of those MAC vs PC commercials. Vista has this new security feature called UAC, user account control. It’s basically a nag screen that comes up if you try to do anything administrative. It’s not smart or secure for that matter like the system in place on all Mac’s. What happens is, if you go into the control panel and try to change your screensaver or wall paper for example suddenly your whole screen will turn black. A message then pops up asking if you are sure you want to do this. Personally, I think this type of security is an after thought to an inherently insecure operating system. But what do I know, I just fix PC’s all day that are terminally infected with some virus or spyware. Anyway, to the commercial, Vista comes into the room and MAC asks it a question. The lights dim suddenly and a security officer appears in the room. The officer tell Mac not to talk to Vista and turns to PC and asks if it’s OK for him to respond. PC agrees, and conversation continues for another second or two before Mac asks what just happened? Again the lights dim and the process starts again. This, I think will illustrate in real world way how ineffective and disruptive the UAC control has become. Steve, if you decide use the idea write me, I’ve wanted to talk to you since I switched to Mac. My payment will be the happiness that this commercial brings me.

I found this screen when I went to check the time. It reads, “edge data connections not available”
Speaking of errors/bugs. I came across another snafu the other day. I had two greatest hits cd’s (different artists). When I put them into itunes and synced, the one album, (newer one) did not show up. Turns out it added itself under the first album labeled “greatest hits” When I looked under the songs list on the first album on the phone, I found both cd’s had combined. To fix this, I went into itunes and changed the name of one of the albums to “greatest hits-H” This fixed it, the album showed up with the album artwork correctly. Although not in alphabetical order.

I have a Sony PCG-Z1WA laptop withan ALPS touchpad. (Synaptics driver)

I could adjust the mouse speed all day in the gui config but it didn’t change.
So, here is what I did. I noticed in /etc/X11/xorg.conf was already using the Synaptics driver.
Config:

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Synaptics Touchpad”
Driver “synaptics”
Option “SendCoreEvents” “true”
Option “Device” “/dev/psaux”
Option “Protocol” “auto-dev”
Option “HorizScrollDelta” “0”

Added:
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Option “MinSpeed” “0.7”
Option “MaxSpeed” “0.95”
Option “AccelFactor” “0.055”
Option “SHMConfig” “on”
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EndSection

The SHMConfig is so I could download and use a GUI config for the pointer
sudo apt-get intall qsynaptics

The speed I adjusted by hand in the config seems to be fast enough for me now.