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Chrome on Windows 2000

More than once I’ve noted that the main issue with using older hardware is trying to use modern browsers. And yeah, that usually comes up when I’m writing about my ThinkPad 600E with its Pentium 2.

Earlier this week I wrote about how well Puppy Linux ran on it. Then I put Windows 2000 Pro on

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Another Play with Puppy Linux

It has been almost a year since my last look at Puppy Linux so I dusted off the old ThinkPad 600e laptop (pentium 2!) and had a look at Puppy 4.2.1.

Initially it would hang while booting from CD. After some searching I learned to give the “acpi=force” argument at boot and that got things going.

Once

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Old Windows Computer? Try K-Meleon

After a brief foray back to the “Linux for old machines” scene, I have once again found myself running Windows 2000 on my old P2 ThinkPad. I’d been most recently running antiX Linux on it, but for a variety of vague reasons decided to go back to Win2K once again.

For me and the uses of

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Old Machine? Try antiX Linux

As the long-time readers know, I’m always looking for Operating System options suitable for the older hardware — especially my beloved old IBM Thinkpad 600e. Just back in September I thought I had hit upon the perfect solution: Dual-booting Windows 2000 and Puppy Linux. However, after just a few weeks I stopped using Puppy due

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Dropbox and that Annoying Notifier

I’m a huge fan of Dropbox, it has become a very important part of how I work on multiple machines. Honest, I love it.

With that out of the way, I have to admit that there’s one aspect that drives me absolutely nuts. It seems Dropbox just isn’t happy unless it is notifiying me of every

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