This is what happens when you sit too close to the TV set.

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I recently installed Fedora 7. Slightly more annoying than previous Fedori, it gives error messages such as, "you don't have permission to do that, contact your system administrator." Thanks loads. It didn't install cleanly, either. I put it on the third disk, which the BIOS doesn't see, so in order to boot I have to manually issue the Grub commands kernel <tab>, initrd <tab>, and rootnoverify (hd2,0). Then boot.

Firefox got stupider, too. It wouldn't play my favorite internet radio station SomaFM, and I had to install a MIME type editor extension to get it to recognize .pls files.

Xubuntu

OK, I'm done with Fedora. Xubuntu. The radio plays, everything mounts, stuff just works. Drops keystrokes sometimes, though. Very strange, that.