Supercomputer

I finally have a laptop of my very own! It’s actually Mariko’s old laptop that, with some help from friends, has been brought back from the dead. It’s got a nice 12GB HD, 32 MB of memory, a Pentium II processor running at 266mhz, and a beautiful 800x600 display. Not only that, but it’s running the latest and greatest OS, Windows98. It’s actually not that bad...really.

My main motivation for getting this running is just to have a laptop that sits on my bedside table that I can use to connect to MLB Audio games, so I can listen to the Dodgers lose while I fall asleep. I couldn’t get my PocketPC to connect succesfully to the MLB streams, otherwise I would be using that. Besides the audio streaming, I guess I will use it for IM’ing, email, and web browsing. For the IM I will use Trillian/Yahoo!/ICQ, and I might use Opera to connect to my IMAP mail server. I really like the interface. I think that’s all I will load on it. Right now it boots up really fast, and I don’t want to slow it down by adding all the junk like RealAudio, Quicktime, etc. I don’t think this computer can handle all the good stuff anyways.