well, Cuddles, for me the sad waste is the games (ok, that is supposed to be disposable income lol). I have spent probably a couple of hundred in a year or so on windows games, nice stuff, and here I sit playing Frozen Bubble (love the frozen bubble, I do) and occasionally Tux Racer (love tux, but am not very good at it)

And sorrier, the graphics apps, most notably Photoshop (mine's too old - PS4 doesn't work worth a hoot with wine) and some other graphics apps that I am sorry I spent the money on this past year since I now hardly ever boot windows otherwise. I really admire you to be able to use linux professionally.

At work, geesh, there is a web app we use that their development team programing in cold fusion has been totally wiped by a problem with windows 2000 users. My solution is to use mozilla - long story short, they don't support any browser but MSIE but at the moment any browser BUT IE will do reporting with their web app...lol.

oh, Gary - mistakenly answered you in another post. Anyhow, I found the power mgmt in Kanotix BH4 (2.4.25 I believe) to be quite nice. Everything goes down, comes back up on cue though we are talking older desktops here. My only question which I know you can answer, how the heck is it pulling this hat trick off:

Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!

I installed this with acpi support (could someone please give us noobs a nice definition/differences on apic and acpi? They are related I know but not the same thing)