Ah man Norton Ghost spun up memories of Norton Utilities, which had one of the few disk sensor apps (package in a nice enough widget to have a place on our desk

Ah man Norton Ghost spun up memories of Norton Utilities, which had one of the few disk sensor apps (package in a nice enough widget to have a place on our desktops). The competition we had over HD speeds! That's a part of LANParties that seems to be forgotten, and even here as I read all the replies. Sure, it was about games and file-sharing, but it was as much about "hey you see what this dude did to skin his Windows?" or "wait was this transfer really that fast?" or "did you hear what this guy just did?" little legends that developed in the time we had together and made us ache to come back better and have the cool stuff everyone would be talking about next time. Before Google had all the answers, before all the hardware was centralized into a dozen corporations, before there was an index of tools and their purpose... we had each other, and that was pretty cool.