I want to be a better geek!

I'm having a duel with a particularly craptastic bug in my Eee PC (cryptic errors any time I try to start any programs [up to and including the file manager. Seriously...], and a sudden inability to save or delete things), and I am alternating between sheer rage at it and some sort of weird gleeful high at getting to play around with the inner workings of Linux to fix it (with the help of the internet and people who know better than I do what they're doing). I should start seriously considering getting the Computer Science degree I've been vaguely pondering because I am having WAY more fun than someone with a spazzing-out computer should be having, and it would be even MORE fun to be able to figure it all out on my own. (Available Inodes running out for really stupid reasons, as it turns out, and I want to hug the guy who figured that out with his own misbehaving Eee AND came up with some custom code to fix it.)

Since most people who have the problem are finding that it comes back eventually, some other guy came up with a way to have the Inode-freeing code run automatically every time the Eee's lid was closed.

This is too awesome. I really, really want to learn how to be able to come up with things like that.

(And then, when I grow up, I want to program things that don't pull crap like this to begin with.)