Dear Gnome, Please, have some empathy and help me out. Because of you, my boyfriend is chronically attached to his computer and hasceased to pay attention to me. I try to plan fun things for us to do on theweekends and then he cancels on my because of GNOME conferences! He even wentto the Netherlands to GUADEC two weeks ago and left me at home alone for aweek! He keeps going to all these conferences and I just don't know what todo. Apparently there is some Boston Summit thing he keeps talking about? Way back when, he used to talk about Linux every once in a while and I found itnerdy and cute. However, as of late, his obsession has become a large darkgloomy cloud on our relationship. Even when we are away from our apartment, heis perpetually attached via his MAEMO Linux phone.He even tried to put Linux on my computer and I simply could not take it. Icame home from work one day and my computer said "UNIX" all over it! Recently,he installed Linux on his mom's computer and now she is calling me complainingand I don't know what to do!Please, help me bring my boyfriend back from "Linux Land." His name is Zach. If you find him, you may have to shut off the computer you find him in front ofto get him to speak in anything other than "C." Sometimes he will speak to youin French, but thats only because he has his phone in French. I don't speakFrench so this too has become a wedge in our relationship.This is a severe issue. Please fix this. Desperately,Ilana