One of my data recovery/malware removal machines had started behaving pretty erratically, so I opened it up and Lo! it had a couple of leaky capacitors. No big surprise; it's an Anthlon XP 2400+ on a Jetway V400 mainboard. Not like I can complain about the 6 years I've used it.

Still, I decided to try a clean install of XP and see if I could nurse it along a while. Of course the installation failed to complete, so I set it aside for salvage. A few nights later while I was really bored, restless, and inspired by Bateman's XXXB Ale, I decided I'd install Jaunty Jackalope on it. Not only did it install, but I ran the machine and played with the new version of Ubuntu for over 3 weeks without a hiccup. In fact, I got so cocky I thought I'd try to put it back in service for recovery/malware scans. And, of course, the Windows installation failed yet again.