In a frenzy of Instructables exploration, I discovered self styled chip hoppers, 8BITches (cool site design by the way). They've produced several cool videos that I hereby pimp for your pleasure. Check out their gear.

... or user agent spoofing with Iceweasel. I've started using Debian again recently (Lenny on my eee pc) after several years of solid Ubuntu use. Everything is working great but there are a couple of annoyances, one being that my bank doesn't let me use Iceweasel to bank online. if you've not followed the Debian Firefox/Iceweasel saga, I'm not going to re-hash it but you can get a good re-cap from wikipedia.

One of the annoying things about dual booting is that a fresh windows install will always overwrite the master boot record (MBR) on the first hard drive thus overwriting Grub (or Lilo etc).