so i ditched the monitor, and am now just using the laptop screen. it is a lot further away (well, a foot or so), and a little smaller, but i seem to be adjusting. and no more headache from the 60hz refresh rate.

i do need to figure out what it is that keeps blanking the screen. i suspect the bios doesn't notice the keyboard and mouse activity, since it is all usb.

i've also switched to using mozilla 0.8.1 as my browser. so far it seems to be behaving, and the performance is decent. i played with konqueror for a while, but the ugly toolbar got to me. (it's the little things.)

oh, and my replacement hard drive showed up this morning, so the next task is to fix up my server. i'll probably upgrade it to 2.4.2 while i'm at it.