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Hey everyone! I wanted an affordable way to get back into retrocomputing, and wanted to play some DOS and potentially windows98 games on real hardware again.

I got this laptop for about 30 bucks-it's in good shape, 64mb ram, 5 gb hdd and a P3. Has cd and 3.5" floppy, and Win 2000 Pro installed.

However, a couple issues. the worst of which, the usb ports do not seem to be working, and the CD drive does not work either (spins up, but will not read any disc).

The USB ports and CD drive are seen in device manager. I've reinstalled the drivers multiple times without success.

I'm not sure where to go from here. I planned to either install FreeDOS or windows 98 on this. For now, I did order a PCMCIA card with usb 2.0 ports on it and I hope that will at least work. But I'm still going to be stuck with a potentially non-working CD drive and I'm unsure how I'll install Win98 without that. I suppose worst case, I can install FreeDOS on the floppy drive, which I'm pretty sure works.

And yes, I realize it's probably a junk machine, but all my old machines were thrown away (without my knowledge) years ago and I missed old computing.

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Last week, Germany's armament secretary and the head of the country's navy were in Ottawa to meet Canadian navy and defence officials and discuss their plans to introduce maritime drones — both surface and subsurface.

"It turns out that this is another area of potential co-operation with great potential," Jens Plötner, the armament secretary, told CBC News.

Remotely piloted underwater vehicles are seen as crucial in protecting the subsurface infrastructure, but how to do it and who is responsible is a matter of active debate.

The Yantar, a Russian research ship that Western intelligence believes is mapping the spiderweb of undersea cables and infrastructure, keeps popping up — sometimes unexpectedly — in several locations.

The ship's habit of loitering near undersea cables — particularly in November and December 2024 — caught the attention of Finnish and Swedish authorities.

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Peter Sandwell, Sweden's state secretary of defence, was also in Ottawa late last week meeting with Canadian defence officials.

He said his country, which is NATO's newest member, has been tracking potential threats in the Baltic Sea.

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A handful of Canadian companies are at the cutting edge of marine drone technology. For example Seamor Marine Ltd. produces drones used for aquaculture, underwater inspection of infrastructure and general underwater exploration.

Plötner said Germany is not building its own drones but "wants to get there."

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Also: 50 years ago today (Lennon's thirty-fifth birthday), Sean Lennon, Lennon's only child with with his second wife, multimedia artist Yoko Ono, was born, after which Lennon took on the role of househusband.

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Fediverse Report 137 - this week's fediverse news

• altstore joins the fediverse, and you can interact with apps on the alternative iOS app store now via your fediverse accounts. Altstore also made a 500k USD donation to various fediverse platforms
• Mastodon is getting Starter Packs, with more details on the design, soliciting feedback
• A New Social announced a new version for Bounce, which allows you to transfer your account from the fediverse to #bluesky

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President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Illinois faces legal scrutiny Thursday at a pivotal court hearing, a day after a small number of troops began protecting federal property in the Chicago area.

U.S. District Judge April Perry will hear arguments over a request to block the deployment of Illinois and Texas Guard members. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and local officials strongly oppose the use of the Guard.