Windows is dead...

and so is Linux :P. Let's just say you shouldn't look for me online for while unless I hit a stroke of luck. My Linux install died halfway in, and somehow took Windows with it :(. I'm on my parents' computer now, trying to re-download and burn the install CD. Hopefully the corrupt file was due to the CD I used, and not the ISO itself, or this party will get a lot more fun real fast!

Update: Luckily, it was just the CD that was bad. I downloaded and burned another copy and it went in fine. Unfortunately, I'm still posting this off WinXP because I need to find out how to get my wireless lan card to work in Linux :). But at least it's there. Thanks Monti, for the tip - Ubuntu is much easier than Gentoo to start with :-D.