Thus far my web site has persuaded 29 people to download Firefox to replace their MSIE browser, yielding a personal benefit to myself of precisely $16 (tx Google). This is far from enough to pay for the time it took to set it up, yet it's curiously gratifying. Google ads have paid for about half my hosting costs, again worth far less than the time to set it up, but enough not to rip them back out (yet).

karlberry: Be glad you didn't end up with SiS video. Refreshing a screen that big from stolen system RAM would have left you with precious little memory-bus bandwidth for running programs. When I put an old Matrox G450 with on-board RAM in a Shuttle box with on-board SiS and a 1600x1200 screen, programs suddenly ran >5x faster.