Student_Tech's Journal: I guess another update

Well, I guess this is another update.

The 2 HP PA-Risc machines we got at the last auction have been consilidated into one, so now it is dual processor w/ 320MB of ram, but still a single 4 GB drive. Not bad considering each machine cost $5 and came with keyboard, mouse, and monitor.

This month (last Feb), I got an old laptop they had for $50. Old Sharp, 100 Mhz Pentium, 24MB of ram, 256 color LCD display max 800x600 (external display 16bit @ 800x600 and 24 bit @ 640x480, 8bit @ 1024x768), 1 GB hard drive, CDROM and Floppy swapable into bay, floppy can be connected externally. Battery appears to be working (only test so far involved playing VideoCDs, lasted about 40-50 minutes under what I think is fairly stressful(CPU just a little faster then necessary for smooth, and constand CD access)) Only gripe I really have so far is that the PC Card slots are non-Cardbus so I am limited in what cards I can get. I did get a network card from the on campus student computing support for $50 (ironic that the net card in it cost as much as the laptop it went into). Other gripe is that it is a charge OR use on the battery, not both. For now it has Win98 on it, and unless I get a bigger hard drive it is probably going to stay that way, although I at least got Cygwin on there and using the X11 server in it, I saw the tricks that was X11.
For the network, because I registered it with the oncampus computer people, it uses DHCP when plugged into the campus network. Fine, except for when I plugged it into my network in my room as my main computer is playing firewall, so I got a DHCP server now running off internal network card so I just plug and chug as opposed to modifing network settings everytime I want to change where I am.