In 1995, I was stationed at an Army base about 10 miles from the DMZ in Korea, and for the first time in my life I saved up enough money to build a computer from modern parts instead of scavenging them from thrift stores and dumpsters. So I went AWOL for a day and went down to a place in Seoul called the Yongsan Electronics Market. To my young American mind, this was a place straight out of a William Gibson novel. Imagine a multi-storey sprawling mall covering about three blocks, with modern stores selling the latest LG stuff at the center, but in the alleys and passageways you might run into a pile of cases being scrapped, or an old man pulling a cart full of dead hard drives, or turn a corner and find someone hand building 20 video cards on a plastic table. But I knew what I was there for, and I bought the parts for a 486DX4/100mhz, plus a used monitor and keyboard, and brought them back on the train. Somewhere I acquired a Slackware Linux CD, and when I got it all put together it was like a dream. I count that era as when CPUs got powerful enough that we just had extra processing power for the little details. But I digress. On the first night I had it, I decided to leave it running overnight and set up a cron job to wake me up for morning formation. Of course, it froze up in the middle of the night and I woke up late and got yelled at.