I feel a mite guilty at the way all this is ruling out traditional hospitality to TAFF and GUFF winners around Eastercon, but no doubt fandom will contrive to cope. Thog on Olympus. After insistent promises from Charlie Stross about how my life would be transformed into an eternity of bliss if only I installed Linux instead of Windows, I found myself with a spare Pentium 100. Re-instal Windows 95. Next, Mandrake Linux began more promisingly, but after comprehensively trashing the Windows installation it seemed to feel its work was done, and hung up.
Third time is the charm.
I am duly playing with Linux and feeling very, very stupid. My fury knows no bounds. The issue remains unresolved. Also I remember Locus rejecting my obit for Alfred Bester, because it wasn't upbeat enough. Heroine's efforts to attain her Dramatic Goal hang by a thread, and Something Big Happens that rolls it over into the End Game.