August 24th, 2013:

	Well, our little bundle of joy was born June 28th, happy and 
healthy.  She and mom are doing fine.  But that's outside the scope of 
this phlog.

	My main project, the Ultra 5, is still on hold.  Too much work to 
do on the house, and my lab is currently a storage site for furniture as 
we renovate.  I have been able to work on small projects here and there, 
mostly on laptops as they don't take up a lot of room.

	My current project is a 1999-vintage Toshiba Satellite 2060cds.  
I acquired it sans power adapter for a tenner at the Salvation Army thrift 
store.  The power adapter was bought for a song on eBay.

	I was glad to see the machine worked.  It had Windows 98 (First 
Edition!) installed, along with a bunch of crap I'll never use.

	I tried to install Debian 7, but the installer crapped out, saying 
it couldn't locate the CDROM drive...  THE SAME DRIVE IT BOOTED FROM!  To 
paraphrase Madge, "Linux, you're soaking in it!"

	Rather than piss around with drivers and modules, et cetera, I 
opted to try Damn Small Linux instead.

Nuh uh.

	The Live CD wouldn't boot, would choke while loading the PCMCIA 
drivers.  I anticipated this, so I downloaded the syslinux version, which 
supposedly works with older hardware no longer supported by isolinux.

Same diff, choked on the PCMCIA drivers.

	So, I've taken the lazy way out and cleaned out the laptop as it 
stood.  Wiped everything I'd never use (mostly art and scrapbooking stuff) 
and updated Windows 98.

	Web access is slooooow.  I won't use Internet Explorer on 
principle, but it's a moot point as it won't even LOAD web pages 
completely... even relatively light HTML pages without CSS.

	Firefox 2 works somewhat.  It's really slow, but I should be able 
to tweak a few settings to speed things up a bit.  Not that it matters, as 
I don't plan on doing much web browsing anyway.

I'll probably try to install an older version of Cygwin/X to have a bit of 
fun.