Normally, I would refer to you as Mr. Cutts, but I have read your BLOG for a long time… one of the downfalls of BLOG’s – they create one-way relationships. =)

I have two questions and can’t seem to find the answers.

404 – 301 After a site update, several pages for which the file name was changed showed up as being not found (404), but the pages existed, with slightly updated content. Is a 301 redirect permissible in that situation? Or will it cause problems in the SERPS? How about if the old name was removed from the sitemap, and the new name added? Is it okay to do a 301 in that instance to help the new page get found?

FAQ pages – Of all pages, FAQ’s seem to present the worse possible problems. There are tons of Q’s and long A’s. Is it okay to do show/no show clickables so long as script/no script is included, too, and not get in trouble for a cloaking situation? Or do all the Q’s and all the A’s need to be always visible? This seems to be an area where the search engine rules are not in the users best interest; often times, they have a particular question and want to just scan the questions to find it. This also seems to be an issue for citations for papers – it would be easier if those citations were in a “clickable” open and read and “clickable” close and let me continue reading script/no script set up. What do we do about the FAQ’s to keep the pages cleaner?

The behavior is the always the same on Ubuntu / Debian systems for years

I thought this was removed in Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) when using the ubuntu installer, but I may be wrong. It definately happens when you use the alternative installer disk (it uses the debian installer)

Speaking of Vista, it’s amazing the amount of Internet chatter about “upgrading” from Vista to XP. I’ve heard a few horror stories and will probably wait another 18 months before giving Vista a try.

With Microsoft that’s a rule that works well for me. My trusty old XBox is still banging away without a fault whereas XBox 360 have a high failure rate from what I’ve seen on TV.

Thanks for the info about the CD message, I had an install CD, but it was still quite annoying.

If you administer Debian or Debian derived distros like Ubuntu on servers it paid dividends to read the “Debian Reference” stuff on “apt” and package management.

I’m the kind of user who had to reinstall Microsoft Windows once a month because it couldn’t cope with me installing and removing, and developing software. Microsoft Windows is more robust these days, but the package management in Debian is just amazing. Not reinstalled the Debian desktop box in years, and it has run at least three different versions of Debian, and at one point reinstalled every graphical application on the box, run out of disk space during upgrades (when Microsoft Windows did this it corrupted the registry and forced a complete reinstall of Windows – eek another day wasted – and that wasn’t a desktop box but one of the office file servers).