Watch this youtube video - it explains a lot more about it - including where the phonebook is. Image that, pen and paper! :-)

What on earth happened to Maemo? It's running on my N900 right now and pretty awesome. Who wouldn't like some debian niceness on their phone?

Well, for people like you and me who do this, a more "advanced" and elegant solution is not a problem. Just open up a VM to boot off the CD. For grandma, rebooting off the CD is good enough.

Printed and bound.

Try killing a spider with an ebook.

I'm in Australia you insensitive clod!

It still happens - called the persistence hunt. Check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUpo_mA5RP8

Not sure about the sound issue, but I had the video issue too this morning. It's because I installed the proprietary Nvidia drivers. Simply rerun the installer and it should recompile and build the driver from scratch and install it properly.

This is not really a 9.04 to 9.10 issue though, it happens whenever you upgrade the kernel - happened to me twice with normal Jaunty updates.

I disabled pulse (not uninstalled it) last night following this guide: http://idyllictux.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/ubuntu-904-jaunty-keeping-the-beast-pulseaudio-at-bay/

So far so good - fixed up my Skype lag issues.