When I started playing I was in highschool and I studied CS in Uni cause I wanted to be a sysadmin so I could keep all the ports open to play CF all the time.
Now I haven't had the urge to play in years.
ah yea I remember Ben though I haven't logged into AIM/ICQ in ages and yea man i had a blast playing Etarekoth and interacting with a bunch of awesome characters...
might search through the site and have a look at my old logs if I can find them hehe...was tossing up playing again, wonder if the imms still hold a grudge lol.
I use Ubuntu at home because it makes it very easy to setup multimedia codecs, compiz bling etc.
I use Fedora at work because its a pimp developer platform and I've found it more reliable/stable than Ubuntu.