1. Do a hard reset on the machine
2. When you arrive at the GDM screen, DO NOT CLICK ON ANYTHING.
3. press CTRL + ALT + F5. Your screen will switch over to a text console.
4. Log in.
5. Install the Nvidia glx driver

sudo aptitude install nvidia-glx-new

6. Reboot the machine.

sudo reboot

@echo off
REM
REM
REM    Detects winzip and silently uninstalls
REM    There is a un-stoppable pop-up window. so this will kill
REM    all instances of  IE after the UN-installation.
REM
REM
REM
taskkill /F /IM wzqkpick.exe
wmic product where "name like '%%winzip%%'" call Uninstall
REM
REM This section is for WinZip <12
REM
If Exist "%programfiles(x86)%\Winzip\winzip32.exe" GOTO 64
If Exist "%programfiles%\Winzip\winzip32.exe" "%programfiles%\WinZip\Winzip32.exe" /Uninstallx
taskkill /F /IM iexplore.exe
GOTO :END
:64
"%programfiles(x86)%\WinZip\Winzip32.exe" /Uninstallx
taskkill /F /IM iexplore.exe
:END

For getting rid of WinZip 12, the magic happens in the 'wmic' line. It searches all of the installed product's names for "winzip" and will uninstall anything it finds. This only works for products that use MSI's. If you ran this outside of a batch file, you will have to use a single % percentage sign instead of the %% double percentage sign... Windows scripting sucks, and that's just the way it is. Same thing that happens in "FOR" loops.

I never knew anything about the Windows management instrumentation control (wmic) until now, but I will be sure to exploit it's features.

**Confirmed using Blackberry Tour (9630) on Verizon. **

What we will do is use a program called ‘barry’. http://www.netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry All we need to do is install some packages from the repository below. These commands are from the terminal, so launch it from “Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal” in the Menu.

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

add these lines:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/doctormo/barry-snapshot/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/doctormo/barry-snapshot/ubuntu karmic main

install the repositories key.

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 113659DF

Now update your package list

sudo aptitude update

and install the programs:

sudo aptitude install libbarry0 barry-util barrybackup-gui

Thats it! now to create the connection, the command will vary depending on your provider. The ones they have preconfigured are: ATT Cingular, China Mobile, KPN Nederland, O2 Ireland, Rogers, Sprint, T-Mobile US, Verizon.
the syntax is :
sudo pppd call barry-{provider}

for Verizon:

sudo pppd call barry-verizon

You’ll see a bunch of output, and it’ll tell you that the connection is up. to close it down, press (CTRL+C). Make it pretty by creating an application launcher on your desktop.

add this to sources.list

deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lenny non-free

run this to get the public key and install it:

wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

then just install it

aptitude install virtualbox-2.1

this will automatically create the group “vboxusers” and add the user who installed it to the group. If you need to add others:

sudo adduser `[username]` vboxusers