gnuplot and prettyness

I am hooked onto Gnuplot – its so versatile when you want to parse offline data (like benchmarks) and draw graphs for visual representation. Now if only I can figure out from the arcane http://gnuplot.info/documentation.html on how to make these really pretty for the management types.

Your system is too SLOW to play this!

mplayer is not happy playing back 720p (1280×720) HDTV resolution Matroska HDTV torrents. I need a faster laptop to play Lost Season 4 on my HDTV without dropping frames. :(

[partvarious-lx] ~> sysctl hw.model
hw.model: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz

[partvarious-lx] ~/movies> file Lost.S04E02.720p.HDTV.x264-CTU.mkv
Lost.S04E02.720p.HDTV.x264-CTU.mkv: Matroska data