So my Gentoo install is driving me nuts. I suppose a stable system with all the software I need on it is too much to ask? I'm fed-up of the workarounds for a bug being 'get the latests version', which just happens to require a whole bunch of stuff keyworded as unstable. Worse still is the suggestion 'have you tried emerge -e world'. I'll just leave my computer recompiling itself for the next 2 weeks on the off chance it fixes an obscure KDE bug. It's not like I actually wanted to use my computer for anything else...

So I decide to actually put the Ubuntu I recommend to everyone on my desktop. I fish out the 64bit alternate install disk, and boot up. What's this? it thinks my SATA drive is 80Gb of fat 16 partition. Something smells here. It smells of Microsoft. And it smells bad. I go through my entire collection of Ubuntu install cds and they all throw up the same issue. I return having backed up my oblivion saves and have to resort to dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda. I partition up the disk leaving some space for the dreaded windows. And in less time it took me to rant about it, there's a shiny brown GDM login waiting for me. Lets see if I can get windows on there as well without feeling the need to arrange travel to redmond and acquire the obligatory stick with a nail in the end...