Sometime on Oct 4, Satya assembled some asciibets to say:
A pretty visible menu option, thank Eris.
Hmmm... looks like someone's taken up Discordianism!! May your life be chaotic pleasure.
Well it works now. I don't know what the problem was -- perhaps the utter lack of running xdm on the Linux box?
No, xdm on the linux box has nothing to do with X on the win box.
Philip