Like I need another reason to avoid sleeping.
I uncovered an old laptop at work. It has been in a laptop bag on a shelf for nearly three years.
It's a Compaq Presario 1640. AMD K6-266, 96megs of memory and a 4 gig drive. It's not going to have a second life as a work horse or game machine. It maybe near the end of it usefulness but I still like to have it around.
It had a fudged install of Windows 98 on it. After noodling around with it, trying to fix it up, I gave up on making it suck less and installed Windows 2000. 2k ran slowly but well until I boned it tonight.
There are no 2k drivers specifically for this laptop and the generic ones for the touchpad and mouse kept freaking out after a few minutes of use. The USB ports on the port replicator never functioned under 2k. I attempted to fix that with some iffy drivers and accidently rendered the keyboard, touchpad and mouse inoperable. Go me.
Right now, I'm watching Debian install. Don't know what I will do with it besides fiddle with it when it completes.
At least I have my downloaded television shows to occupy my mind. I plowed through the first four episodes of Alias season three tonight. Seventeen more episodes to go.