the 90s laptop is functioning. it's slow, and i might uninstall some plugins, but it works.

there is no wireless in this device, so i should be able to catch them, at least. there's no backdoor. and, the image is exceedingly minimal; i winlited it years ago to essentially only be able to stream. most cli tools are missing, outright. and, i can reinstall it quickly when i have to.

the windows 7 machine was not winlited; that might be a required step, moving forward.

after scripts, which includes dropping sysinternals exes in, the system32 directory is only 300+ items and 150 mb. the entire iso is 200 mb. it loads with about 40 mb of ram in system processes (and then has to load firefox...). so, this is a winlited xp that has the same resource footprint as a minimal linux distro, which is what i was going for when i built it - and what i'm going to default to if i can't get it to stay stable.

the internet is full of resource-greedy ad servers, but if i just stick to my blogspot site, i should be able to avoid them bogging the machine down. 

installing this image on my other laptop is going to be a problem because it needs sata drivers, and i can't see the install screen. i'd need to find a way to send the setup disc out through the projector out. i'm going to have to try, soon. i'm going to need to flash the bios, though, too. i want to get what i'm doing done, first.

so, i'm going to do some dishes, take a long overdue shower and then sit down and hopefully get some work done this weekend. maybe i can get out for some groceries some time mid week.

i just downloaded my router's log of my usage today, which is since 13:00 and is 1.5 gb lan traffic (downloaded) and 2.4 gb wan traffic, also downloaded. 

is it accurate? it seems like a lot of extra traffic on the wan, but 1.5 gb isn't that outrageous for me (2.4 would be a heavier day than today, i would think). that extra gb from the wan is probably all dropped packets. let's see how close it is to what they tell me.

i'm more concerned about the supposed 800 mb of upload traffic. i don't understand that. that doesn't seem right.

so, i'm going to powerwash this again and i'll be back in a few hours...