Windows XP Pro on a pair of Celerons

So I was working on a pair of computers today. One of them was used by a friend's kid, who uses Limewire (500 points if you see where this is going).

The system was a Celeron D (not too bad, actually), with 256MB of RAM, 16MB of which was shared! Between that and the 400+ spyware instances that I found on the computer, the system slowed to a crawl...upon boot. I gotta dig up an old 256MB stick of RAM to slap into that machine.

The other system I worked on was this friend's business machine...and yet it contained a Celeron 2.8 and 256MB of RAM as well! I didn't have time to service that computer, but I would imagine that system would take minutes to load up Internet Exploder as well.

I know, I know...ranting about WinXP on 256MB of RAM just weeks before Vista? I forgot to mention, the computer had a 14" Packard Bell monitor...and a keyboard with a half-sized backspace key and extra large enter key???

In other news, I crushed my opponent in my Fantasy Football league, but I play the fifth place team next week, who's a half-game behind me and has a pretty strong team. If I win that game, I could just about punch my ticket into the playoffs. A loss, and I'm in pretty big trouble, since I still have to play the top two teams.

Today's random-ness:
- Ok, I was close...Farmar and Cook both scored in double figures, but neither scored 18 as I predicted. Not surprisingly, the Lakers lost. I'm wondering if Vegas has a bet on who the leading scorer would be for the Lakers when the season ends. I'd bet $20 on Lamar Odom, and a $10 longshot bet on Andrew Bynum.
- Raider Karma nearly kicked me in the butt, as I nearly lost to the Raiders in my video football season. Good thing they reverted back to the Raiders before it was too late.
- I defy anyone to tell me a better way to cook a steak than with cracked black pepper, kosher salt, and butter...which reminds me, I gotta get a cast iron skillet. And while you're at it, tell me a better way to cook a turkey than via deep fat frying.
- Trail mix is horribly, horribly addictive. So is sleep. I'd still rather have trail mix, though.