Or how I remembered how little things have really moved on since I first disliked Unix.

Everything's still there, gently rotting in cyberspace, gathering crust and grime, getting steadily nastier with time. Well the software is free so you've no one to complain at. The machines are perfectly logical, but history's landed unix with a lot of illogical baggage. Is it "user" or "usr"? Of course sometimes it's the one and sometimes the other... you just have to remember which to use when. It's a shame that the machine can't use the huge amount of memory it now has to remember a little thing like that, really.

Anyway, here's how I made an Acer Aspire One machine (the one with the HDD and Linux) work reasonably well, recorded so I can do it all again when I brick the sucker the next time. It's all easy stuff, but somewhat frustrating until you know the path.

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