I have found another good use for running Linux on its own machine; as Janina said, it is always booted and running. I seem to have now screwed up speakup on that machine, but I can troubleshoot by telnetting in to it which I'm doing right now from work. If it had been a dual-boot machine, it might have not been in Linux. Anyway, I'm not ready to ask for help with this yet, because I think I can fix it myself. --Debee