After another hardware battle, I discovered my 1-wire hub had a failed port so I had to reconfigure my wiring, dropping my solar sensor. Will get back to that another day. More importantly, I had decided to make the switch to Linux on my old T23 thinkpad that’s running my Java software. It is maxed out at 512mb ram(!!!) and has a 20 GB drive. After playing around with Linux (Ubuntu 8.10) on my destop with great success, I decided to replace the slow XP on the T23 with a Linux system. Should be perfect – right? Old, small slow machine – just where Linux shines. Well – NOT!