Add these ingredients:

1 Matrox G450 dual-head video card, removed from one of the Enco studio computers months ago…
1 spare 19” monitor taking up a sizeable portion of my desk space…
1 slightly hosed Linux install, requiring a fresh reinstallation…
2 hours of over-the-wire Debian Sarge install time…
1 hour of Googling and configuration tweaking…

To get:

1 freshly rebuilt Linux box with a desktop display that spans two screens. Good for impressing co-workers, even if they don’t really understand what’s so cool about it other than being able to drag windows from one screen to the other…