It was a technically frustrating day yesterday.  I recently purchased the newest release of Neverwinter Nights 2 (a role playing game) in the hopes of doing something not work related in the evenings for a change.  Alas it wasn’t meant to be and I instead spent about 6 hours last night rebuilding the machine after a series of interventions that ultimately rendered XP unusable and Ubuntu wiped from the face of the map.
First off it turned out that the $70 game (Neverwinter Nights 2) didn’t support my graphics card, which …