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By Brian Jepson, bjepson@ids.net  Prologue: Composite
Conversations with Fictional Detractors Rain fell on the
concrete sidewalk, bringing out that indescribable smell of the
city. Mr Fiction and I were enjoying the weather, sitting at a
table under the newly installed awning just outside of the AS220
cafe. We should have been inside, perhaps building more Linux
boxen for the AS220 computer lab, or maybe writing the two-way
replication script between our in-house Linux server and the
machine that hosts our web pages (http://www.ids.net/~as220).
No, instead, we were breathing in the Providence air, enjoying
the smell and feeling of the city before it got too hot, too
muggy, before we got too lazy.  Mr. Fiction isn't completely
convinced about Linux; perhaps he never will be. Nevertheless,
he dutifully helps me when I'm trying to bring up Linux on an
old Compaq 386 with the weirdest memory chips, or when we need
to build the kernel yet again, beca