[SWLUG] is usb failure a premonition of machine demise?

[Gerald Davies]

> I recently bought a 12GHz AMD quad-core with Nvidia, 8GB, 1TB hdd for under
> £400 from Palicomp, an eBay shop. If you buy over the phone then you get
> priority shipping. Ubuntu 64 works on it, but flash didn't, so reinstalled
> with Ubuntu 32bit - everything "just works" and flies like a bird!

couldn't use this?

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html

(i know what it's missing...)