Well, I love the new release of Ubuntu...  but I really hate the new layout... which is fine, its Linux - I can change it... can't I?...

...yes, but not how you might think.  I tried swapping themes, I looked in all the options... but I just couldn't find the simple, yet missing, option to swap the minimise maximise and close buttons back to where I want them (on the right)... until I did some searching on the net... and found I wasn't alone. 

As part of my C programming course recently I needed a Linux environment to work in, so decided to give Sun VirtualBox a try as a way to run Ubuntu 9.10 on my Laptop (running Windows 7).  It works well, but required a little tweaking to get going properly.

First, you need to install guest additions - to do this you need to choose it from the devices menu at the top of the VirtualBox window... this mounts them as a virtual CD ROM drive in your Linux install.