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How much upload bandwidth do you have? It could be as simple as someone hammering your site which would lag everything out. I would disable apache on the Fedora machine and see if the lag stops.
Hehe, it took a good day and a half to compile OpenOffice.
I use to run an Epia 800. Now that was a test of patience. I did avi to VCD video conversions and for an entire film it would be nearly an entire day of 100% CPU usage.
I bought a cheap desktop case for my Epia and crammed an LCD that my friend bought me into the front of it. It is one of the most solid cases I have ever used.
You can find out a little bit more about the mod here:
http://www.stolemyshoes.co.uk/displayarticle.php?article=lcd.txt
Not sure whether this breaks forum rules (apologies if it does) but I believe the FMVs from Final Fantasy VII are available on certain peer to peer networks. It's nice to hear of someone's parent actually taking an interest in something like this.
Also Final Fantasy VII rocks my socks.
I find that how the plot of Half Life games is given is very different to most games. Yes you do get your main objectives shouted at you and if you just blast through sticking to them then the plot can seem a bit shallow. But I find that if you slow down and spend some time just wandering around...
Doesn't anyone find it ironic that the box cover used has the words Vivendi Universal on the spine of it?
I don't think I will buy Half Life 2. There's something about buying a game, installing it and then not being able to play it till the game company says you can that just doesn't feel right.