So far, I don’t actually hate the new notification system as some people do, but if I decide at some point in time that I do….

gconftool -s –type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false

Do not try to “fix” a wifi connection when you’re as tired as I was this afternoon. My connection dropped out of the blue (probably just Charter’s remarkable incompetence), and somehow, as I was trying to fix it on 4h of sleep, I made things a whole lot harder by being too tired to remember I’d flipped the physical wifi switch to “off”. Took me over an hour of troubleshooting (all the way to reinstalling network-manager) after I awoke from my nap before I discovered the goddamned switch was set to “off”. I did that once with openSUSE, too. Duh.

J. said that she’d help me with some pronounciation the next time I talk to her. Yay!