The evil lurking in the office...
2005-10-13 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbear ... is an aging Windows 98 machine. The disk seems to be flaking out --
it hangs in Scandisk. I was able to "fix" it tonight by booting into
Linux, mounting it, and unmounting it. But that's clearly not a long-term
fix. And much as I'd like to declare the office a Windows-less zone,
that won't work either -- everyone would just hang out in the
back bedroom on the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
flower_cat's machine. I could probably
put in a new drive and keep it limping along for a while, but 98 is still
a flake, and a 500MHz K6 is looking pretty slow these days.
So it looks as though I'll be wasting money on another cheap XP machine from Fry's the next time they have them on sale. At least I know how to make the damned things quieter now. Another $300 I wasn't planning on spending.