My Computer

It's a Laptop

I got a laptop for school, but I haven't used many of its "portable" capabilities since its purchase.  It is a Hewlett-Packard notebook.  A recent (that is, if February 2004 can be considered recent) desktop snapshot of my desktop can be found here [240 KB].

Innards

2.4 Ghz Pentium 4 Processor

768 MB DDR SDRAM

60 GB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive

120 GB Firewire/USB 2.0 External Hard Drive

2.4x DVD+RW Drive

On-board Intel Graphics Chipset

Semi-decent internal sound card

The laptop is, of course, replete with USB 2.0 hookups, 54G wireless built-in, Ethernet, S-Video out, and the other usual laptop connectors.  Unfortunately, it doesn't come with a Firewire jack.  I may have to buy a Firewire PCMCIA card eventually, so that I can input video to this computer.

Programs and MumboJumbo

The software that I use on this computer is constantly changing, but it currently includes the following:

• Microsoft Windows XP Professional
• Microsoft Office 2003
  • Microsoft Word 2003
  • Microsoft Excel 2003
  • Microsoft FrontPage 2003
  • Microsoft Powerpoint 2003
  • Microsoft Access 2003
• OpenOffice 1.1.2
• mIRC Internet Relay Chat client v6.16
• Mozilla Firefox 0.10+ (latest nightly)
• Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7
• Mozilla Sunbird 0.2+
• DeadAIM, Gaim, and AOL Instant Messenger
• WinAmp 5.05
• Paint Shop Pro 9
• Norton Antivirus 2004
• Folding@Home
• Cerberus FTP Server
• BNBT BitTorrent Server
• Nero 6 Ultra Edition
• LavaSoft Ad-Aware SE
• Spybot Search and Destroy
• FileZilla FTP Client
• 7-zip
• BitTornado
• Semagic LiveJournal GUI
• Skype
• eMule
• TightVNC
• Python, Cygwin, WinCVS, GTK, etc...

Additional, I have installed various other small programs and games (such as Gunbound and Call of Duty)