2007-03-30 Dell

Dell Pentium 4 1.7Ghz PC with 256M RAM and a 40G HD. Has the funky paired memory with blanks required for unused slots. Bit of a pain. Machine had Windows XP install and hung for no real reason late in boot process, seemingly just prior to login. Eh, who cares, Knoppix is the answer. (But then also note that for some rather large set of computing machinary related questions or problems, Knoppix is the answer). Points to note on contents of HD:

• Family had Canon PowerShot A60 and curiously neglected to take a picture of the computer or of the box the Canon came in. How weird, though I suspect they had a prior machine when they bought the camera. Zero points for self-referentiality anyway. Pics of kids and Temple Sinai all over the HD, in fact everywhere except the My Pictures directory.
• Family also have some form of scanner and was digitizing various older pics and diagrams etc.
• No digital audio or video media.
• No word docs etc.
• No porn except for the possibly inadvertant image file in cache named penis_enlargement_stretcher[1].jpg.
• Beanie Babies and Baseball in the cache directory, how curiously appropriate, both are completely pointless by design and each markets multiple functionally exchangable instances of the same thing.

Pic shows what might be the family dog winking with one eye and getting redeye with the other. Maybe it knew it was destined to have this picture shown on the interwebs??