lame, lame, lame

at first, i thought it was the cruddy slimserver software.

then i thought it was cruddy perl modules.

then, i thought it was my own cruddy RAM.

finally, it turned out to be my cruddy OS wasn't turning on the CPU fan, so now the CPU fan is permanently on, and hte case fan may have to be switched on permanently as well. hot weather + dumb OS = bad news and random weird crashes. so long silent computer.