Mortified as I was to learn that P had asked J about his bonus (only to find out he was to get it today and had ruined the surprise–I TOLD him to just wait and see!), we’re getting new systems. Well, the bits that need to be upgraded, that is. Perfect timing, too, because at least one stick of my RAM is bad and crashes Windows. Ubuntu handles it okay (apparently, so far), but Win crashes and reboots out of the blue. Did it yesterday while I was standing four feet from the puter, ironing. Lost the unsaved changes on a little cartoon I was doing in PS, too. Fuck. Anyway, I think I’ll stick with the Athlon 64 3400+ and I’m going momentarily to get the 64-bit edition of Ubuntu. I could run XP okay under VMware atop SuSE 10 (Gnome) on my current system, but don’t think I even tried to install Photoshop because it’s a resource hog even running straight on XP. With the new system, I should be able to dispense with the dual boot and just run Win in VM when I need Photoshop. I dunno, though; I kind of like having Windows as an entirely separate partition that I know can’t even “see” my Linux partitions. That way I know there’s no way it can fuck them up. Decisions, decisions. 🙂