Two days ago:
Installed Mandrake 10.0 on my laptop. Looks pretty, but annoying features shall cause me not to use it on my laptop… at least for quite awhile. Good waste of 8gigs of my drive.

Yesterday:
Re-installed Windows XP on the laptop. I got to try out the freebie MS Security updates cd as of Feb. 2004. After that, windows update downloaded 17 critical patches. I restarted, and downloaded 4 more critical patches. Restart again and still had 3 critical patches to download. Isn’t microsoft grand?!

Today/Tomorrow:
Kill the OS on my shuttle and re-do it. It’s not quite as bad as the laptop was, but it’s hurting for a re-install. Yay for free time in the summer!