This is the day of the demolinux. Last week, Eli Billauer gave me a demolinux disk, which I did not know what to do with. "Keep it", he said. I could not think of anyone who would like Linux ran out of a CD, instead of from the HD.

This afternoon, it finally hit me: My father does not allow me to install Linux for my sster in a dual boot, nor to give her a computer with Linux installed on it. I can give her the demolinux CD, and she will be able to play with it at home, instead of via putty on my ADSL-connected computer, which will not give her X.

When I got to my parents, I found out that their other OS has crushed and will not go up. How lucky it was that I had an operating system on a CDROM! And what a magical operating system it was, that enabled me to access the partitions of other OSs, and let my sister back-up her stuff!