Snow storm garbles cable modem

The problem is that whenever we get harsh weather the cable modem connection seems to get dropped. It's happened several times in the last few days. Cheng says that his has been dropping in Lake Elmo too.

Just now I got the chunky old PC's Slackware Linux installation to boot up correctly. Hooray, I thought it might be impossible!! (Dumb LILO settings)

Possible new server

Alana has an old generic PC that she's letting me erase and install Linux onto. It is a 200 MHz Pentium I which had Windows 95 on it, but didn't even boot. I just tried to get Slackware Linux running on it. It installs, but doesn't seem to start up correctly. Also it has very old BIOS on it, which might make it impossible for Linux to boot unless I hazard an upgrade. These sorts of things are mostly alien to me, from a lifetime of avoiding fiddling with PCs. Heck, it might not even be Y2K compatible. But if it works, it will be a good enough server.