If you want to remap your mouse buttons from one to another, there’s useful documentation here.

On the other hand imwheel gives you the ability to binds your mouse buttons to other actions (e.g. type text, combination key strokes).  However you can probably find it within your distro’s repository and install it from there.  Once imwheel is set up, you can take a quick glance at the man pages.

If you want to modify system-wide settings edit /etc/X11/imwheelrc, otherwise modify $HOME/.imwheelrc for user specific settings.

One thing to note is that unlike rest of X configuration, tilt wheel is not represented as button 5 and button 6, with thumb buttons represented as button 7 and 8.  Instead tilt left is “Left”, tilt right is “Right”, left thumb is “Thumb1″, right thumb is “Thumb2″.

My .imwheelrc is listed below, but feel free to search for other configurations for more ideas.

".*"
None,Left,Control_L|Page_Up
None,Right,Control_L|Page_Down
None,Thumb1,Control_L|w

The quickest method of upgrading Ubuntu is as follows:

1. Download the alternate ISO off BitTorrent.
2. Change your package source server from the default to the fastest available:
   a. Within Ubuntu, go to System > Administration > Software Sources
   b. Click on Download From > Other.
   c. Choose “Select Best Server”.  Ubuntu will scan for the fastest server for you.
   d. Click on “Choose Server” and close out all the dialog boxes.
3. Mount the ISO:
   sudo mount -o loop ~/ubuntu-8.10-alternate-i386.iso /media/cdrom0
4. You should get a pop up asking if you want to upgrade and click yes.  If not, run:
   gksudo “sh /cdrom/cdromupgrade”

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5. During the upgrade process you can choose whether or not to download updates off the network.  Choosing no will be the fastest option, but you’re merely postponing downloading the extra packages until later.

Update 11/15/2008:

I wanted to add that using this method will add the CD into your apt sources, prompting you to add your CD in whenever using apt-get to install packages.  Fix this by simply editting /etc/apt/sources.list and comment out all “deb cdrom:” lines at the top as root.

Update 12/17/2008:

This does not work with AMD64b installations as the alternate ISO only supports i386.