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GAC going high-tech here, and good to hear Bud and everybody getting along fine, and we had a good time with the company, and like Joyce says there. And I've been, you know, that spare IRLP Echo Link box, which is running Fedora Core 3, all the scripts into that box, I think the power supply failed, it did measure like eight or 9 volts on the 5 volt supply. And I think it took off the motherboard. So I gave up on that. I tried to save all the cards in there to hope that's not damaged. But anyway, I had a way back running XP, Windows XP, so it's really an old computer. Well, I fired that up the day before yesterday and it powered up fine and booted. So I'm pulling it apart now and seeing if I can put the 40-pin solid-state drive in the spare box that had the motherboard failure. And I'm looking at the board there and trying to find, I think it's the IDE connector anyway, the one, and I can't really get to it, I can't, I had a heck of a time trying to get the hard drive in that HP box out of the way so I could get to that connector on the motherboard in in this HP box. And it's back in there so far. I've got to make sure it's a 40-pin connector. It looks like it ought to fit, but I can't tell. I fumbled around just before the pad here and Joyce helped me a little bit, holding my mouth and holding the flashlight and pinching my ear and rubbing my tummy all at the same time. And I couldn't get that to line up and 2 gigabytes at all. It's really old stuff, but it had the motherboard to it. So that's where I'm at. I'm going to either give up on that HP box or beat it to death. So that's what's going on here. KC7GHD, more than you ever wanted to know.