Ubuntu & I’m too smart for my own good

With the immediate arrangements for me “volunteering” for my employer, Flock, I booted up a “400$ special” PC, built myself 10 months ago. I have not used this PC much since starting with Merc, as they have met well all my “computing needs” ;-) At Merc I had 4 PCs (2 of them top of the line) and a not particular mobile, but true development box, Acer Laptop. This PC of mine was still running the previous version (warty) of the OS, Ubuntu, so I proceeded to update it with confidence as I would with any Debian-based distro.
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