@cymric
Third thing: I am *really* curious as how you manage to lock up the system 'with everything you experiment'. You can crash Linux, but it takes an effort, and to be very honest, I don't think a newbie can do it. So please, to satisfy my curiosity, what kind of experiments do you conduct?
....play divx in xine. about 5% chance of complete lock up with a green screen (not even playing fullscreen). What it is doing and why I have no clue, but I should not need to care about such anyway.
Anyway, I too would hate to discuss linux, your comment just made me remember why I boot up linux only for programming :-)
Sincerely,
-Kenneth Straarup.