Posting at 3 AM because I was getting around to a long overdue reformat of my old PC. Had to nuke the whole thing so the virii and malware had nowhere to hide.

Planning to use the laptop mostly as a linux box, but for obvious reasons I still wanted a Windows XP partition. A clean fresh install of Windows XP + Service Pack 2 + All Windows Updates now takes up about 7 gigs. I know hard-drive space is no big deal these days, but I still think 7 gigs is pretty insane. With Vista coming on a DVD, I have to imagine the size is gonna just keep ballooning.

But far more annoying than that is the number of restarts. I’ve had to restart the computer about 10 times to install all this crap.