I didn't get out there to get more Coke and junk food.

I wasted more time browsing.

I worked on trying to get freeside working again, still didn't get it working. I think I might have to find something else to use.

I fixed ICQ, it hasn't been working since I reinstalled windows, last year.

I had some dinner, I'll have to go out tomorrow and buy more food.

I cleaned up a bit, there are far too many pcs in here, but I managed to move them around a bit, and get it a bit tidier.

My phone rang, it was a woman I haven't spoken too for ages, A firend of the guy who owns the aircon business I used to work for, I look after her computer. She told me it had been running slow, and when she ran scandisk, it was telling her that the disk was failing. I said I would get a new disk, and come and install it this week.

All day, I've wanted to play a game, since I started looking at dreamcast stuff this morning. There is still dreamcast development going on, that's pretty cool. There's still no support for the crappy winmodem under dreamcast linux though.

I just dragged the games machine out, noticed the side was off, weird, this is the one machine that stays together.. then I realised, it's because I was mucking around with this machine before it was put away, I was trying to put a 3dfx card in it, which has tv out, but not by default, so it's no good, because I use this machine connected to the tv for big screen gaming.

I put the old 2d tv out video card I normally use back in the right slot, took out the sound blaster card with the dodgy line out connector, and put the cruddy old ess card back in (not great, but it works).

I noticed there were 2 disks in the machine, I vaguely recall one failing, and me adding another one in there. I took out the one that was just sitting there, a 10g Maxtor, hmm, I wouldn't have thought that would have failed.

I plugged it in, booted the machine up, the 10g disk works fine, it's got linux on it.

During booting, it complained the partitions haven't been checked for 739 days.

I don't know what machine this is out of, or when I installed it. It's got a stock kernel on it, so I can't have used it very much before pulling the disk out.

It booted up into xdm, but the keyboard wouldn't work for some reason (maybe it was plugged in the wrong hole on the motherboard, it's one of those dopey boards with the vertically mounted keyboard/mouse ps2 sockets, where they can be either way, and never labelled).

So I turned it off.

I think I'll put the games disk back on, and play a bit of Duke 3D.