I think I'm having an affair. Maybe it's the seven-year itch. Maybe it's an old flame. Maybe it's the clothes Zen wears. I find Zen Cart alluring.

Don't misunderstand that my love died for Drupal. The ready marketing infrastructure of Zen Cart, however, drew my wanton gaze.

• Hardware: U.S. Robotics 56K FAX EXT V5.4.62
• Software: efax-0.9a

• minicom -s
• Serial device: /dev/ttyS0
• Exit
• ati - 5601 expected

• System, Administration, Printing, New Printer
• Network Printer, HP JetDirect, host:localhost, port:9900, Forward
• Manufacturer: Raw, Model:Queue, Forward
• Name: fax, Apply

• apt-get install efax-gtk
• Application, Office, Efax-gtk
• File, Settings
• Identity: Name:, Number:
• Modem:, Serial Device: TTYS0
• Logging:, Log file: /home/...
• Page, Page size:, Letter
• OK

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Those who are starting to explore diagrams, organization charts, flow charts etc. would do well to start here. Graphviz does lots of tricks but the simplest is the directed acyclic graph or DAG. Before you run away, a directed graph at its simplest relates two "things" such that one leads to another, e.g. a->b or a leads to b. Think "flipping the switch turns on the light". The part of Graphviz that takes the left side leads to the right side statements is called "dot". Pretend you are Aristotle expounding on causation or a preacher drawing the creation process from Genesis.

Inkscape is a graphical front end to an SVG. In some ways it is like Adobe Illustrator but it has a number of extra features which rival Adobe Flash. It doesn't do photos but will trace them and it doesn't do videos but will do animation.

In Ubuntu, there are a few dozen font packages. You can browse the package names (but not the fonts themselves) with the Synaptic Package Manager under System - Administration. Search for "ttf-".

On the web, http://dafont.com has an amazing collection. The Windows instructions are on that page. Browse the fonts until you need a nap and choose "download". Put the selected font somewhere it can live undisturbed. The process in Ubuntu is more complex: using the Synaptic Package Manager install defoma, defoma-doc and dfontmgr. Then run "sudo dfontmgr " in a terminal and enter your password (not root's). Choose "truetype" and then drag and drop the downloaded font onto the "Font information pane". Then guess at the "hints". There is undoubtedly documentation somewhere (that's why we installed defoma-doc).

I've been dodging a Drupal feature called Taxonomy for about 10 months. I awoke in the middle of the night, fixed a pot of coffee and started rereading the section on taxonomy in "Drupal - Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals and Community Websites" by David Mercer.

it was easy to turn on the feature but you need a "vocabulary". So I scanned the last three months of posts on LSNet and started making a list. To associate posts with the vocabulary, I went through a few dozen post and choose one or more of the vocabulary terms, adding new terms to the vocabulary "Topics". I initially tried "Free Tagging" but that got messy fast.

Neither reading an article or two nor buying software is sufficient preparation for the task of cleaning up an infected Windows machine. The task can be difficult as evidenced by Microsoft's recommendation that you blow away the contents of your hard disk and reload. That is a painful process in its own right and, when possible, I prefer to clean up rather than reload.

You can increase the likelihood of success by following the procedure outlined in Knoppix after which your machine should be behaving resonably well. If it is not, I recommend backup and reload. Now you can pick up the process from Windows.