Designed for Windows NT

My network at home is a random assortment of machines. The oldest guy (the Designed for Windows NT machine) is getting ready to go to Staples to be recycled after I wipe out the hard drive. I always try to keep a beater on my network for testing. My thought is that if something I write runs fast on the older hardware running a copy of a later OS, it will scream on what is currently out in the marketplace. I am running Windows XP on a Pentium III w/256M Ram. Couple of tweaks, couple of driver changes and I use this guy as a VPN client and to browse the web. [Some days I even run sql on this guy.]

I can show my age here. I started writing in C and Business Basic. I can remember when I only had 64 K of RAM. Machines were not forgiving. If you wrote bad code, your crap ran slow. It was too expensive to throw more hardware so you wrote elegant, efficient screaming code.

Now that my beater is going away, I wonder what I will use now to test?

Red Elephants

I took a yoga class down the road from my house tonight. This was my first real in a yoga studio class.

During one of the interludes, she said "There is no one else you need to be..." And I as listened to my breath, for the first time in a long time, I realized she was right.