biting kneecaps

Okay, this has to be the best Christmas gift ever. MeriAnne bought me an Acer Aspire One which I spent last night installing Linux on (I left XP on with a 20G partition... maybe I will need it some day) and it totally rocks. A tiny little Linux box (okay, it's bigger than my Nokia 700 and my SqueezeBox Controller... but it has a much better screen than either of those, and a keyboard as well.. and 160G drive, running Debian and Gnome.) Out the box Debian Net-install, the X server and wireless didn't work. Grabbing an X server from Debian Testing worked for the X server, and grabbing a new kernel fixed the wireless. Now it works perfectly.. well, need to fix some LEDs so they light for wifi and such, but.. really this is one slick toy. Between that and a hellish week, and a bad week for my baby car, I am very happy I lucked out and found (and married! :P) MeriAnne.