I just bought an aluminum macbook5,1 and successfully installed kubuntu 8.10 intrepid ibex onto it.
Mostly, I used this wiki page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook Aluminum
and this forum thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=947947
UPDATE 2009-01-08: I’ve got the macbook back, now with it’s 3rd logic board and 2nd magsafe board. The tech said he thinks there was a ‘bad batch’ of [...]

Using WordPress 2.6 and wp-latexrender and an installer. Success after jiggling with the paths and editing class.latexrender.php lines 197–224 to replace each instance of ‘\f’ with ‘\\f’.
For example, line 203 had to be changed from
$string .= "\\newsavebox{\formulabox}\n";
to
$string .= "\\newsavebox{\\formulabox}\n";
This change is apparently only necessary in PHP versions >5.2.5 (thanks to steve at sixthform for [...]

watch -n 1 ‘dmesg | tail’
watches a file (or other input) and outputs it every ‘1′ second