Wish it was always this easy (PC woes)

[mapsedge]

I was right: it was a hardware problem, specifically the video card.  I've never seen a capacitor "pop" before: there are seven on the card, the size of pencil erasers, and five of them blew their tops out.  Wow, guess that's a problem.

I have ordered a new card.  It ought to be here by Thursday: this one has a fan on-board, so as long as the power supply on my IBM can handle it (and I've no reason to think it can't) I should be back in business.

On to work.

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[billthetailor.livejournal.com]

I had no idea about Ubuntu Studio. I recently installed Ubuntu (vanilla distro) on my sandbox pc and really like it: it mounted NTFS, shared (with Samba) no problem. My favorite editor (Notepad++) supposedly runs in Wine (though I haven't tried it yet). That there is an edition that includes all the other (and looks really nice, too!), I'll just have to try it.