The mystery deepens. I had a couple of mysterious crashes while using Fedora Core 3, and when I installed FreeBSD 5.3, tried a kernel recompile which resulted in mysterious and unreproduceable segmentation faults in the compile. Usually such things indicate poor hardware, but both systems used a version of gcc that I don’t completely trust, so I decided to try 4.10. Interestingly enough, I had a hard reboot while recompiling the kernel for it. I think it might be that my laptop gets too hot and resets, as it only appears to happen when the laptop is significantly stressed.

Oh, and as an aside, 4.10 seems to have problems with the sis0 network controller, issuing only watchdog timeout errors. Sigh.

Not sure what I’m gonna do about this. I’ll ponder it all for another day.

Making some headway in Halflife 2 anyway. But Striders are a bitch.