Numerous places are running stories about the "death of Clippy". Say what you want about the paperclip, but you shoulda seen the faces of my lusers when I switched it to something else, like the ball, or Einstein. All of a sudden you'd have sworn these people were toddlers getting a lollipop.

I got Samba working on my OpenBSD box, and have a drive mapped. I am utterly amazed.

And btw, if any of you have played this game, I'm basically stuck at this point, so a brief spoiler as to wtf I'm supposed to do would be appreciated.

All I wanted to do was compile the latest beta of Gaim. Damn, no ssl libraries.

Hey, this is CentOS! It's like RedHat! I'll give the RPM a shot! Damn, it wants pspell. Ok, find rpm for pspell. Gosh, that was easy. Well shit, pspell wants aspell. Find rpm for aspell. Not that hard. Ok. Well shit sherriff, aspell tells me a later version is installed![1]

Ok. I'm betting the problem is, knowing DeadRat, the dev headers aren't installed. By this point, I could give two shits and reboot into Windows.

Edit: Of course none of the devel stuff was installed. Finding that necessitated a trip to the install cd, and the website for updated RPMs (that wouldn't have been installed even if I had decided to throw in the kitchen sink pdx6... :-P). Still no joy, until I dug through config.log and noticed "libgcrypt not found".

I'm gonna go have a stroke now.

[1] Most of my dealings with RPMs end this way.

I sooooo want to do this.

Also, installed Ubuntu on vmware. Isn't it cuuuuuuuuute? *makes little drum noise*

Edit: No gcc, no autoconf, none of that. Not cute.