Or perhaps even that is an exaggeration. I am over at my Aunt's place and she and my mother are watching and listening to a Roy Orbison concert on a huge plasma TV with surround sound. It really is quite impressive, although they seem to be chatting through it depsite the spectacle.

My machine (the internet server) is back to running normally after I discovered that the spam filters were causing it to run out of memory (hard to do!). It was acting very mysteriously until I noticed those 0th-order page allocation failures in the kernel log files. Yikes! I wasn't expecting those. I'm not really sure why that was happening because my virtual machine has 64MiB of dedicated RAM and four times as much real swap space, more than enough for a huge pile of server tasks. Debian is suffering from bloat, and I am seriously concerned about the upcoming release of etch. I would really like access to the latest versions of ruby on rails, but other than that I have no desire to be running newer software. The latest versions of login in debian don't just exec the logged in user, but forks and leave the login to linger around in memory and on the process table. Why? How can this possibly benefit me? When even low layers of the operating system ignore resource constraints what hope can I have to run etch?