Finally got a new computer at work. The ~700mhz/~300Meg/16gig dell laptop
was getting a bit annoying.

New machine is a dual opteron with two gigs of ram and a 210 gig harddrive.
Also managed to scheme my way into a better monitor, this time a 21 inch
monitor. Yay! I can finally crank the resolution higher than 1024×768!

That said, I forgot what a pain it is to tweak a box to work
the way I want it to. Biggest thing missing now is a decent
web browser. Mozilla and epiphany suck. Firefox is almost
usable, aside from ui weirdness and no session support. Working
on getting a galeon-1.3.16 built for x86_64. That way I don’t
have to redo my somewhat insane bookmarks/smart tool bar/etc
stuff that none of the other browsers seem to do very well
at importing.