Hi Brian,
I think we should stop here. We're somehow off-topic. One last statement perhaps, I've never seen a *NIX system crashed so hard, that root had no chance but reinstall, but I do have seen this happen to Windows system. Well, that seems to be more than enough stuff for a separate thread.
Cheers,
Frank
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