PCMCIA, performance, Open Office

Hi all - 

A quick (not particularly thorough) look through the archive didn't turn 
either of these up, so...

1) On at least three distributions (Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE), starting card 
services hangs laptops. I've seen this on laptops from Toshiba, Dell, and HP. 
You need to use an interactive startup or a boot disk to disable pcmcia so 
you can even get to a prompt. I've had this problem occur over the course of 
several years, so it doesn't seem to have gotten much attention.

Once you get the system to boot, you might need to build a new version of 
pcmcia-cs. I've also noticed that networking starts before pcmcia does...but 
I've got a PCMCIA NIC, so I re-ordered the startup scripts.

2) Why can't we have a distribution that's as fast and light as slackware, but 
has all the software SuSE or Mandrake does? And for that matter, why can't 
KDE run as fast as Blackbox or WindowMaker? Don't give me this nonsense about 
C++ and linking problems...I want speed, darn it!

3) Why does text displayed in Open Office tend to get garbled until the window 
is resized? I've had this happen on multiple distributions, with multiple 
machines, with multiple releases.

I'll probably think of more after I post, but these are a start. In addition, 
I want to be positive, even if it's a little off topic. Therefore:

1) I've never made a coaster under Linux with cdrecord or X-CD-Roast.

2) I've run snort for weeks at a time inside my Linux firewall and picked up 
nothing.

3) I laugh every time someone sends me a virus.

Jeff