I will be doing some work on my beloved computer tonight and tomorrow. Mostly an OS upgrade, or several, depending on what I like. I am amazingly still running Windows 98. It has treated me well, but has become somewhat unstable over the past year, so I figured it’s time to switch. I’ll be starting with Windows XP, but I have a copy of Windows 2000 to fall back on if I hate XP (judging from some horror stories, that might be the case). I’ll probably also take this opportunity to play around with Linux. Again. In the near future, I’ll probably be getting a new hard drive and a DVD burner.
All of which is to say that if things do not go well tomorrow, I might not be able to write my regular Sunday post. Wish me luck.
Update 1.25.04: Things went well. Repartitioned the drive and started formatting it, went to the movies to kill time, and when I came back installation was waiting for me. 20 minutes later, I was good to go. Spent some time downloading and installing programs this morning, but I still got a bunch of stuff to do. So far, I like it. The many “helpful” features of XP don’t seem to be bothering me much, so it looks like I might be sticking with it. Then again, little minor things can build up over time, so I guess I’ll just have to wait and see.