vakkotaur

The donated computer that turned out to be a Pentium 166 is still in the dining room for now. I'll likely move it into the machine room soon, where it can take the place of Pa's machine that was returned to him (so he has a backup).

This machine, currently dubbed vector rather than a horse breed or Animaniacs character name, runs Vector linux - just barely. With only 32 MB it hits swap pretty hard. Tonight I tried to get that up to 64 MB and discovered that the motherboard evidently only has two working memory slots, so it's stuck at 32 MB. While Vector is less than wonderful on it, it'll stay until jmaynard decides if he wants to try Vector on colin the iOpener in the living room or not. After that, who knows?

Having tried to get more memory into vector at least revealed what a few sticks of memory were. I figured I might as well try to get breton up to 64 MB, since it too was at only 32 MB. DeLi, unlike Vector, performs rather well with that, but more RAM is better. That hasn't worked out either. The memory sticks just don't want to fit. Not even the one that I pulled out to get more room to install the others. That's annoying. How'd I get it in there in the first place? I gave up on it for the night a while ago. maybe it'll make more sense in morning. Or maybe I'll have enough patience to take the whole machine apart and not have anything in my way. But it's too late to get into that sort of thing tonight. Some things are bad ideas when tired. Hrm, I wonder if I could swap processors... and find the right jumper settings. Eh, one problem at a time.

Well, maybe 2005 will start out better than 2004 is ending.