Ext3 is the right filesystem to use for drives shared between Linux and windows dual boots.

Since NTFS in not writeable from linux yet, I have found that ext3 is the best filesystem to use for large drives that you want to access from both windows and Linux with a dual boot system.
There is a great driver called ext2 IFS. It installs very nicely and configures cleanly.
The only thing I need to figure out is how to turn it off when I boot my windows using VMWare with a raw partition, if I ever figure it out. Then I will want to map network drives to the same place in that case so everything keeps working. I might use shared folders if I can get it to work. I think it is not available in vmware player though.

intell i845G on Dell dimension gives blank screen when switching users or switching VTs

This one has been a pain for a really long time. On my Dell dimension 2400 with a pentium4 in it, and an i845G* video card, when I changed VTs or switch users the screen goes blank and I can't get it to come back. And now on SLED 10 I can't get more then 800 x 600 resolution.
So I did some research and came up the the following links

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=us&cs=04&docid=125C48475F2CC36BE0401E0A551758EE&journalid=796235A6471B11DB97C60767E62D0E13&l=en&s=bsd#en#us not very useful but sent me to intel's site where I found this driver

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=865&OSFullName=Linux*&lang=eng&strOSs=39&submit=Go%21
I need to figure out what driver I have and see if I need to install this one.

Linux Agents facility- AMOR (Amusing Missuse of Resources)

Since I started using linux I have been looking for an animated desktop character facility that I could use to keep me awake and I finally found it. AMOR. I had looked for days and never found it. Then I happened upon it by accident. It is a little system that brings up an animated character that has actions and can be directed to show text in a bubble. I want to see if I can use it to create a program like cyberbuddy for linux. I also want to see if I can get it to show MSAgents. I think it should be possible but I am having trouble getting anyone who knows anything about it.

Running windows from a dual boot partition with VMWare using raw mode.

Well, here is the idea. I have winxp-pro in a dual boot partition on this machine. It is all configured and working and registered and all that good stuff. I just don't like booting to windows when I have to do something in windows like debug a windows specific problem. So, I thought it would be cool to run windows as a guest operating system from my linux host in VMWare. I read that it was possible but that there were some things to worry about if it was on a scsi disk. Well, I don't have a scsi disk. I have an SATA drive. So, I thought it might work.
Problem: linux shows sata drives as scsi drives by using device names like sda1. So, I read some people that said they had got it working.
When I tried it , I got an error saying that the partition table had changed and that I need to remove the disk and re-add it. So, I did and it immediately gave me that same error again.
Someone told me that I need to use a boot floppy but I don't know what he means so here I sit with another unsolved problem.

Remote desktop problems

Well, I have 4 monitors on 3 cards and for some reason desktop sharing doesn't work right. At first is would let me log in but when I moved the mouse it would only track vertically not horizontally. So I thought that if I updated to the very latest one it would work better. Well, it didn't. Now it crashes and I can't tell why.

So, I thought maybe I should try NX. So, I installed freeNX and knx since I am running kde. Well, it seems to work great but I can not figure out how to get NX to work for desktop sharing with krfb. Seems like it would be staight forward but I have no idea where to start.