Daemon is fixed. It turned out to be a software problem and not hardware, as I'd originally feared (and which I would not be able to fix). I'm still not entirely sure what was wrong so that the network card got permanently stuck on "disabled" but it works now and given I'm not from IT, that's all I care about.
And I updated to Fedora 13 (was previously running 11). As you can see from the screenshot, the new theme is star based and very pretty. I'm also going to use this opportunity to cheer on Lili (short for Linus Live) USB Creator that allows you to make a live boot USB stick (so you don't have to burn the .iso to a CD and thus allows you to save the environment from some more plastic). It is, for one thing, the shiniest thing ever. The user-interface is very aethestically pleasing, very intuitive, and automatically verifies your iso (in case of downloading errors). It's small enough to be a fast download even on my bandwidth, easy to install, and it's fast in what it does. I don't have a screenshot of it since I'm currently on Daemon and Lili is a program that I ran on Zen's Window's XP, but yeah, after years of checking hash and CD writing I'm a little bit in love with this USB image burner.
(Though there was this one "pick your source file" window that came out in French and that was very very strange.)
Right. Now I'm going to make sure I have all the right updates, install them along with OpenOffice, mplayer, and IDEA (why I took the time to fix Daemon this weekend, to be honest -- and yes Daemon's specs is not quite up to par...it's getting to be quite a geriatric laptop now, but I think I can find a way to manage).
I'll figure out the tablet thing next weekend, but that's supposed to be one of the improvements in the newer version, I think.
I now have the strangest urge to watch West Wing. Also, it's time for lunch!
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