The blague

Great, so Adobe has abandoned their (crappy nevertheless) AMD64 version, the existing plugin has some nasty security holes. With the help of nspluginwrapper you can run i386 plugins for Mozilla on AMD64. Download the Flash Linux version as a .tar.gz from Adobe's website, untar it and install with nspluginwrapper -v -i <path to libflashplayer.so>.

As additional dependencies I had to install ia32-libs-libcurl3 and ia32-libs-libnss3, but your mileage may vary. Running nspluginwrapper in verbose mode usually tells you what you are missing.

Sounds like a relaxing activity - WRONG! Adobe's 64 Bit Flashplugin was ruining my "Charlie bit me"-"David after Dentist"-".."-experience by silently ignoring mouse clicks within its window. Although it is possible to use the player with keyboard only, it really sucks if you want to skip a few seconds of the video (and jumping to a certain point of time via the URL is funny but only for the first time)

Solution workaround is setting the environment variable GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1. Finally, blood pressure is down again, the evening is saved.

A quick look into the GTK+ documention revealed the following:
"GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS.  If set, GDK creates all windows as native windows. This can help applications that make assumptions about 1-1 correspondence between GDK windows and X11 windows."

After replacing my broken G1 (aka HTC Dream) with a new one, I had to reinstall my preferred ROM image (CyanogenMod).
So in order to install Cyanogen's ROM image, here is a short summary of the necessary steps:

1. Downgrade to the exploitable RC7 image
   To downgrade you must have a Gold Card, which is a "special" SD card. Creation is easy as pie:
   
   • Find the CID of your SD card ON YOUR PHONE (you can use the "adb shell" command from the SDK or a file manager from the market). Navigate to /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/, inside there is a folder starting with "mmc1:" followed by some numbers, inside you find a file "cid". The contents of this file is the unique CID number for your SD card, write it down and reverse it bytewise, ie "abcdefgh" becomes "ghefcdab".
   • To generate your Gold Card image go to http://revskills.de/pages/goldcard.html and enter the reversed CID and your e-mail address. Remove the card from your phone and use a card reader to connect it to your PC running GNU/Linux ;-). Write the image directly to your SD card (ie "dd if=goldcard.img of=/dev/sdb"), NOT to the partition (ie sdb1).
   • Download the RC7 image from the internets (Google is your friend)
     Copy the DREAIMG.NBH file to your SD card and reboot while holding the CAMERA button. The boot loader comes up and installs the image.
2. Root your phone
   
   • Download Cyanogen's recovery image 1.4 and put it on your SD card. Now the real fun begins.
   • For local root access install a telnet application from the market, go to the homescreen and type "<ENTER><ENTER>telnetd<ENTER>", thanks to a legen-wait for it-dary bug, this is entered into a root shell.
   • After connecting to your local telnetd on the phone run the following command:
     flash_image recovery /sdcard/cm-recovery-1.4.img
   • Reboot
3. Install HardSPL
   For installing unsigned ROM images you need a new bootloader.
   
   • Download HardSPL bootloader, rename the file to update.zip and copy it to your SD card.
   • Reboot with HOME + POWER buttons pressed and install the update.
4. Upgrade to CyanogenMod
   Because of some legal issues with Google, Cyanogen is not allowed to distribute his ROM with the Google apps (Maps,..) bundled. So a little more work is required here:
   
   • Download the Android 1.6 recovery image from HTC (http://developer.htc.com/adp.html ) and put it on your SD card.
   • Download Cyanogen's ROM (at the time of writing: http://n0rp.chemlab.org/android/update-cm-4.2.14.1-signed.zip) and copy it to your SD card.
   • Reboot into the recovery image (HOME + POWER button)
   • Wipe the phone's memory (ALT + W)
   • Update using any zip with the HTC recovery image, it may also upgrade your radio if necessary and afterwards it should autoreboot into the CM recovery image 1.4 again
   • Now update using any zip to Cyanogen's image.
   • Finally reboot.
5. Enjoy your - now really yours - phone!

After upgrading to grub2, I only had a 640x480 window on my notebook. Not that I see that screen very often but it still annoys me, even more annoying is that my nice framebuffer console also defaults to 640x480. After diving into the grub2 documentation and asking Google I've restored grub2 and my framebuffer to that wonderful 1440x900 again by editing /etc/grub.d/00_header.

You may want to fix the background wallpaper by providing one with the correct resolution and changing the WALLPAPER-variable in /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme