I decided that if I'm going to be developing for Unix, I should update my Ubuntu distro from 9.04 to 10.10 (it is now 3 versions or a year a half old). Our internet is inordinately slow here, so it takes a couple of hours to download the updates (plural, because Ubuntu does not allow you to upgrade straight from 9.04 to 10.10, you have to do it in three steps). An intelligent updater would put an ordering on the files, download them in the order it needed, and install as it downloads. Then by the time the download completed, the installation would be complete too.
In addition, the installer asked me if I wanted to overwrite a file called "menu.lst". Little did I know that it was the GRUB bootloader menu, and that by overwriting it I would lose the reference to my Windows installation. If it had a sensible name or had mentioned that it was the GRUB bootloader file, I might have noticed. But instead I accidentally told GRUB to forget about Windows. It is a very good thing that I have smart neighbors.
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