After working happily a couple of months with Ubuntu 10.04 I installed a new kernel with the update feature. This resulted in not having any sound or volume controls. After reading a lot on internet articles  I found the following article... Comprehensive Sound Problem Solutions Guide v0.5e I followed the following commands that brought back sound to my notebook.

Activiti the light-weight work flow and Business Process Management platform targeted at business people, developers and system admins is open-source and distributed under the Apache license. Activiti runs in any Java application, on a server, on a cluster or in the cloud. and thus it runs on Linux as well. In this "How to run Activiti on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS" article I'll try to explain how to install Activiti 5.0 BPM tool on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

Sketchup the 3D modelling software for everyone from Google is able to run in Wine on Ubuntu. In this article I'll try to explain how to get by the error "Sketchup was unable to initialize OpenGl".

Softsqueeze is a software music player developed in Java (allowing it to work on most operating systems) that works with the Squeezebox Server software. Softsqueeze emulates most of the Boom, Duet, Transporter, Squeezebox and Slimp3 hardware music players. It uses a TCP based protocol, allowing it to use across the Internet and through firewalls/NAT routers using ssh tunneling. The software music player supports synchronization with hardware players.