On Monday of this week, I finally got around to installing a larger hard drive into my 5-year-old laptop. The puny 10 GB, 4200 RPM drive just wasn't cutting it. I dropped in a 60 GB, 5400 RPM thingamajig. As a part of the upgrade, I figured I'd move to Windows XP rather than Windows 2000. The old installation had been there for five years and was starting to get rather unstable. Either way it was going to be a headache, so if I had to take the hit, I figured I'd go for Win XP.

Generally, I'll say that I like XP better than 2K on my laptop. It definitely has better logic for powersave and suspend/restore than did 2K. It returns from a suspended state much faster than did Win 2K. Further, the .11 wireless subsystem seems far better as well.

BUT... (and there's always a "but" in one of these stories, right?), I had to reinstall everything. I just got emacs fired up. I installed CLISP. Now I'm fighting with Slime to get it talking to CLISP correctly. Something is messing up when emacs is supposed to be making contact with Swank running in the Lisp process. I can't quite figure it out. The Lisp process buffer shows it starting up and loading/compiling all the various Swank-related files, but emacs stalls with a 'Polling "c:/DOCUME~1/Dave/LOCALS~1/Temp/slime.1284"' message.

Grumble...