Installed Ubuntu 6.06 on my parents' oldish machine. The file-system resizer corrupted the NTFS partition that was there. (It resized once from 34G to 23G, apparently successfully, and then I made the mistake of asking it to squeeze it further to 16G.) The system appears entirely unable to send print jobs to their parallel-port HP Laserjet 1100, which it detects just fine. Instead, hpiod and cupsd get stuck in infinite loops, consuming 100% of CPU. Also, if left on overnight it locks up completely, leaving a static screensaver image. I wonder if the xorg, or kernel drm, Matrox G450 driver is at fault; the failure mode is the same as on the Shuttle when I had a Matrox in that.
I'm now at US$41.50 from Google, for persuading 72 visitors to my website to download Firefox.
apenwarr: S vs N is a matter of whether you are inspired (or oppressed) by your perceptual surroundings, vs. your inner life. Your habit of jumping to conclusions is not a consequence of your N-ness, but rather your J-ness. INTJs often become scientists. INTPs become architects and the better sort of engineer (yes, I'm INTP :-). The difference is in how comfortable one is with uncertainty: a J wants to know *now*, even at the expense of believing some falsehoods; a P insists on keeping things open until all the evidence is in. A P agonizes before a major commitment; a J worries afterward whether the choice was right.
The difference explains an odd foible of J-heavy institutional science. A J will generally refuse to abandon even a thoroughly falsified mechanism if a much better one has not been established, because that would be going from "knowing" to "not knowing". Furthermore, a J will refuse to adopt as equally valid a new, simpler hypothesis that is equally-well or better supported by the evidence -- Occam be damned -- because that would be going from "certain" to "uncertain". Instead, science advances by adherents to the old hypothesis retiring, leaving adherents of the new one.