I'm sure I'll think of more to add soon. For now:

• I've installed OpenOffice.org on my Mac, and all the fonts are garbled/look nasty/are unreadable. What gives?

  This same thing happened to me on my Quicksilver G4/867, OSX 10.4.8, with the very newest X11 at the time (X11 1.1.2, XFree86 4.4.0), using 17" Apple Studio Display. What finally worked (after a number of uninstall/reinstalls so I could try answering the "which fonts do you want to use?" questions differently, and messing with the font settings in OOo's prefs) was to visit the actual X11 Preferences, under the "Output" pane, where I found the "Colors" setting at 256. Changing this to "From Display" — which works on my 12" G4 Aluminum PowerBook — didn't do the trick. I actually had to explicitly set "Millions". There: I've said it. Hope that helps. ;-) [20061112 grimm]

• I'm trying to install Trixbox CE as a VMware Server 1.0.x guest, but anaconda doesn't seem to find the virtual hard disk.

  Many thanks to this article at Sysadmin Ramblings for this, which I quote:

  "When installing RedHat Linux 5 as a guest OS in VMware server, I kept getting a "no drives found" error in anaconda. Someone suggested I use the LSI logic driver, I mistakenly thought that meant a driver disk (dd.img), but that was not the case. The driver for the hard drive is specified when you are defining the virtual machine. Select Custom on the first page of the New Virtual Machine Wizard. Then Linux as the Guest Operating System. Select the next few things according to your own specifications, then when you get to Select I/O Adapter Types, select "LSI Logic" for the SCSI adapter. Then you can select SCSI as the Virtual Disk Type in the subsequent tab. This worked for me with RHEL4 and RHEL5 boot media. I was unable to boot with the default driver (BusLogic)."

  [20080227 grimm]