I had an awesome day today. Went up to JD's house and showed her what she can do with broadband. She lives in a beautiful area of the county, surrounded by hills and oak trees. She just moved from dialup at 21Kb to satellite service at 1500Kb. Added some defence programs, threw Office on there, got rid of AOL and SBC and that silly 60 day trial of Office 2003. Then we did something fun! Loaded up Winamp and listened to streaming music from Europe and watched about two minutes of Stargate Atlantis. Was there for two whole hours and the time just flew by!
She shared some prints she made from a program called Ultimate Fractal (I think) and they would make awesome quilt patterns. Something different than the usual.
It's always nice to see people using the tools at hand to make things better and get more out of thier computers.
Also, got MB's old laptop running with a fresh install of XP and the usual programs. Pretty nice. I've never seen a P4 HT in a laptop before, but this one runs a 2800/512. It seems to run okay, but the battery isn't working correctly and I'm not sure why. It holds a charge, but if you pull the power cord, it loses power. Popped it out and back in, but it still doesn't discharge to the laptop.
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