OMG, how long have I been working on this fcuking computer? A week and a half? Well, I think I've got Slackware up and relatively stable; but I ended up destroying the WinXP on the way, so... a lot of lost emails and password catching up to do. Still, this isn't as bad as when my 386 died, curling smoke out of a capacitor. Those were the days. Anyway, I'm back, mostly. And free of Bill Gates for the first time since I agonized over DOS 3.2 on my 8088 back in `90. Yay, OSS! Now, if I could just find a way to squeeze 32bits out of my wimpy 915G video chipset... oh shi