Moving Completely to Hardy

I have been using a virtual machine for testing Hardy (8.04 LTS) since January, but I needed to spend a lot more time getting acquainted with the system, so I've moved one of my computers which is non-essential, but which I use all the time, over to it. Consequently, my Howtos and suggestions from this point forward will refer to Hardy in particular, though many of the concepts will, of translate to older vesions of Ubuntu.