Out With the Old, In With the New

I managed somehow yesterday to nuke the hard drive on my computer. This particular computer, a Micron Millennia, has faithfully served me since 2000. Yeah, she was slow, but faithful. What more could a person ask of a computer that daily put up with my 'net addiction, plus 5 kids and their various games? Today I'm surfing on the Sony Vaio we bought a year or so ago. We bought this particular computer for the primary purpose of having a machine capable of handling the HUGE computer game programs such as the various Lord of the Rings titles (where you get to choose whom you want to be... Aragorn and Legolas, of course!). Today is the computer's maiden voyage on the internet. May she serve us as well as her Micron predecessor. **sniff!** - wiping away a small tear. I'm fiddling around with this thing, trying to get my favorite free net tools up and running: Spybot Search and Destroy, POW! by Analog X, and my all time favorite firewall, Zone Alarm. I had better get busy!