While waiting for an email to come in, I set to wondering about Compiz on my notebook, running Hardy Heron.
From Add/Remove Applications I installed Advanced Desktop Effects Settings, Compiz Fusion Icon, and Desktop Effects.
These seem to have given me, via System/Prefernces/Control Center/Advanced Desktop Effects - certain effects, like transparent windows, Wobbly Windows, and the [...]

This must be my lucky day. I haven’t mentioned it here, but I recently updated to Hardy Heron, without a hitch. All my old problems with Bluetooth, crashes, and so forth, disappeared. It may have been so smooth because I updated the HP Pavillion bios (in Vista), which I think was previously causing untold problems. [...]

I’m having freezes in Ubuntu 7.10 with increasing frequency, so an upgrade is getting more urgent. I decided, having done some reading on the web, to first upgrade the bios on my HP Pavillion 6558ea, and after some difficulty in finding the right webpage, I came across this curious note:
Fixes
# Modifies the thermal policy [...]

Apologies for being so long in returning to this subject, as promised on December 15.
If you’ve read my entry Starting Bluetooth Services: Gutsy bootup problem from December 4, you’ll have read that my attempts to blacklist Bluetooth failed.
I’ve had some comments and emails about this, and it seems to be a particular problem [...]