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[lethargic_man]

I spent Sunday afternoon playing with my new toy, a castoff laptop from bluepork. It's got a Pentium III processor running Windows 98!

Now you may well ask what on earth I was doing getting such an antiquated laptop. The answer is that it means I can retire luminiferous—until now, the only Windows machine (also Windows 98) I possessed—which I was only keeping for the purposes of viewing my Encyclopaedia Judaica and Encyclopaedia Britannica CD-ROMs. The new machine has a higher resolution screen than luminiferous, and doesn't suffer from luminiferous's many problems, including a graphics fault that means when it gets hot, rather than the screen staying still and the mouse pointer moving, it's the other way around. I can finally also now see the videos that come with the Judaica—luminiferous's evil twin^* would play the audio, but not the video.

* The same laptop, but running in Windows, not Linux.

One of the many odd things about luminiferous is that, in Linux, once it had gone from text mode into X-Window, it couldn't go back, and when I logged out or shut down, rather than seeing the shutdown messages you'd expect, I saw the following pyrotechnics (the moiré pattern is an artefact of my filming):

Weird, huh?

(As an aside, this post represents my first attempt to do video editing, my first attempt to embed a video, and my first upload to YouTube when I discovered embedding a video and getting it to work in Windows was way more effort than it was worth.)