new favorite shortcuts in ubuntu - alt + left click to move a window and alt + middle click to resize the window.
and good reference page for shell commands:
https://help.ubuntu.com/11.04/serverguide/C/index.html

Started off this morning walking through the tutorials for Go App Engine.  I'm reading that I need Python 2.5 installed for App Engine to run.  I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, and the system installed Python is: 2.6.5.  Initially I figured I'd need Python 2.5 installed, and that I'd just do the following:

Go to: http://www.python.org/download/releases/ and check for the latest 2.5 release, currently 2.5.6. Download the bzip2-compressed source code. Open a terminal and:
tar -xjvf Python-2.5.6.tar.bz2
cd Python-2.5.6
./configure
sudo make altinstall
make test
sudo install


but, then I'd have to invoke App Engine by invoking python 2.5 instead of the system default, or I could use virtualenv and pythonbrew.  
OR, let's just try and see if I can skip all of this and just run it with 2.6.5 instead, which is what I'm going to try first, because all of this is annoying.  Wait, this reminds me of why I like Go.