Uncle.

After fighting with various Linux distributions for the past week, I have come to the inescapable conclusion that I'm simply not smart enough to use it.  Admittedly, part of the problem is that I'm cheap.  I bought a $12 wireless card; a "fubatchu" brand card as my old pal Lars would have called it, and drivers for it are apparently non-existent in linux without doing some mystical and entirely undocumented NDISwrapper trick, whatever the hell that is.  That's an exaggeration -- there IS documentation, but it might as well be written in Swahili.  Someone, somewhere along the line apparently wrote a python script to do it, but by the time I got to it, it already had disclaimers about not working with the current revision of the OS.  So after plowing through FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, Knoppix, Ubuntu.*, and CentOS, I'm done.  I'm breaking down and trying a WAMP server instead.  At least there will be documentation. *heavy sigh*

If only I could afford to buy a computer from the company I work for. :P