This holiday break hasn’t felt very productive, but, if I accomplish nothing else, I’ll at least have my revamped laptop ready to roll. For Christmas, I got a new hard drive and more ram. So I’ve been installing everything from scratch. And the sheer numer of third party apps I need to make a Win2K box useful is pretty amazing (Win98 is finally behind me. It truly might be the worst OS ever). So far, I’ve added (besides software for my scanner, burner, printer, and sound card) AbiWord, Acid, Mozilla, Enzip, FileZilla, Tera Term Pro and the ttssh extensions for it, Apache, PHP, MySQL, MyCC, JCDSee (a Java take on ACDSee), Java Media Framework (which lets JCDSee handle mpegs and such in addition to stills), Java 2 SDK, FreeRip, Cygwin, and FreeCraft (which lets me play my ancient version of Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness under Win2k).
If you’re running Mozilla and need to get Flash and/or Java to play nicely with it, try this. Works like a charm.