I have spent the past few days working on migrating a bunch of classic ASP web applications from a Windows 2000 server to a Windows 2003 server. A long overdue task, but one who’s time has finally come. The hardware under the Windows 2000 box has been acting up a bit lately and I’m rapidly
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Here’s a little story that I find amusing. Perhaps you will as well. Last month I got Google Chrome working on my trusty old ThinkPad (Pentium 2) running Windows 2000. I was very pleased — this turned out to be a wonderful way to keep the old laptop useful and responsive. However, over time Chrome started getting  September 29th, 2009 |  Tags: alpha, browsers, Google-Chrome, maxthon, thinkpad, windows-2000 |  6 comments 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 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 November 23rd, 2008 | Tags: 600e, antiX, browsers, K-Meleon, linux, mozilla, thinkpad, windows-2000 | 4 comments 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 November 13th, 2008 | Tags: 600e, antiX, fluxbox, ghamachi, hamachi, icewm, linux, PuppyLinux, thinkpad, windows-2000 | 5 comments |
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