hardware issue -- update

[dep]

quoth Matthew Carpenter:
| While I refuse to comment on the color and music-choices for KDE
| Developers (nor defend them), I can comment on the flu...  but I
| won't :)

i continue, i am very sad to say, to expand upon the things i have to 
say about it . . .

| As for your odd config files issues, it sounds like possibly when the
| power supply died some changes were not written completely to disk. 
| Sometimes even journaling filesystems don't deal well with the crash,
| they just don't seem to corrupt everything in sight.  What filesystem
| is in use?

that was the weird thing -- i hadn't changed any config stuff in months. 
i'm using ext3. it's all back to normal now.
-- 
dep

Nuclear bazookas are wholly ineffective against space monsters.