Just read an interesting press release from the New Zealand Open Source Society:
http://nzoss.org.nz/news/2009/press-release-nzoss-g2009-negotiations-microsoft
I especially agreed with the following:
“There are too many potential opportunities for New Zealand being missed. We need to re-examine why free software is not being picked up in a major way across the public sector.”
Small investments could yield large and ongoing returns.
My father-in-law’s Intrepid machine had no ethernet and there was a message: “Wired Network: Device is unmanaged.”. This was strange as it had been working for over 6 months. I still don’t know what happened but I found some ideas here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/337685. Open interfaces thus:
sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces
Edit and save. I just compared my settings with his and suggested he change his to match. NB comment out lines you want to remove, don’t delete them. You might want to look at them later or even restore them.