To start off if my desktop was slower it would be damn near wind up As to the removable hard drive the idea is because the Girlfriend son loves to install crap on the computer so i would want to give him his harddrive to trash and fill up with slipknot wma,s and keep my hardrive seperate to just swap over when he has finished trying to totally kill the machine.

As to my adventures in linux i am getting there i have managed to get the computer to turn on and i have even managed to get it to connect to freeserve. Can't actually get it to do anything once connected but i am sure it will come.

I have an idea though can we hold the next meet in aberdeen then i am sure i could find someone to hold my hand with linux

Engines make far more sense to me