When I asked question 231990, I referred to my 10.04 installation as a "custom distro", when I really meant that it had a custom connection setup for wired ethernet (using cntlm to connect to a proxy).

Unfortunately, people assumed that I was talking about some very different flavor of Ubuntu such as Mint or Backtrack, and closed the question as off-topic. I have since edited the question to make clear that I am in fact using Ubuntu 10.04.

How can I get the question re-opened?