i gave up on getting swsusp working with the lustre kernel, but i got lustre built (cross-compiled!) and am editing this on a lustre mount.
so far it hasn't crashed.
we played with lustre a bit more, but didn't have much success with remote hosts. the vaio (and joe's desktop) can mount the lustre dingus, but can't ls it. open is returning -EFAULT or something. phik was (understandably) entrenched in his MOO hacking, but i'll probably head over to their bugzilla soon enough.
in the meantime, i've set up apache on the lustre server to serve a checked-out copy of loolix.com while i edit it (ie, i'm editing it on a lustre mount right now). i'm forced to use stallmacs since lustre and xemacs don't get along ("Invalid argument when trying to save foo"). but so far no pages full of NULLs.
joe got his airport on our network in his room. this will be handy this summer, when we hang out on our porch.
it turns out i'm not going to need swsusp. the lustre box is out in the living room so it can be on the ethernet, and it turns out that my wavelan card works if i rmmod yenta_socket after resuming on the vaio.
i sent the synce folks my darwin fixes, and hopefully i'll get a response about my synching problems soon. in the process of doing that, i found the answer to one of my questions about multisync, so it's not as broken as i thought.
i also got evo HEAD to link / run on OS X, but there seem to be some severe problems with libglade and shlib bonobo components. hopefully we'll be able to sort them out. the other problem is that when i try to open my INBOX, evo crashes after a while since it's having charset conversion problems. it takes me back.