Just for the heck if it, I decided to upgrade an old Acer 3610 notebook to Windows 10.  I know that is a waste of time, money and effort...right?   Well we'll see.  First off the Acer 3610 is a Intel Celeron M 370 32-bit.  Weak performance by any stretch.  Well that chipset is Intel 910GML which does support Pentium M's.  Will try a Pentium M later on but for now, we'll keep our amazingly fast (scarcasm)  1.5GHz Celeron 400FSB processor.  Disk drive was 40gb IDE so that had to go, replaced with SSD IDE (well probaby compact flash inside but interface is IDE none the less).  That helped the disk performance bottleneck.  Memory is limited to 2gb.  Major bottleneck here but we'll deal with it.  The system has 3gb installed (2gb SODIMM and 1gb SODIMM) but Windows can only access 2gb since the Intel 910GML chipset.  Didn't have another 1gb stick so we'll waste 1gb of memory for the time being.    Now for the fun part....

Still had a few Windows 8.1 keys from our MSDN membership, so installing that to get Windows 10 thru Windows Update.  Installation was normal and surprisingly quick.  All drivers were found except using basic Microsoft video driver. Time for ReadyBoost, need to milk everything we can to get some performance.  I know that stinks too but better than nothing.  Installed a Kingston 2gb USB drive for ReadyBoost.  USB interface is only 2.0. Replaced the wireless card to a N mode card to milk that performance, but for now still using the wired 10/100 port.  Windows update.... wow this famous for stinking with low memory or even medium amounts of memory.  Mega memory hog, this will be painful.  Yes, it was.  a few hours later Windows 8.1 shows me the Windows 10 upgrade icon now.  Let's do it.

Windows 10 downloaded and is installing as we speak (blog).  "Configuring update for Windows 10. 15% complete" so far.   Okay, maybe the processor upgrade should have been done first...  Okay maybe this project should not have even started but I am curious.   I will come in a few.

Just looked over at the notebook, we are to the black "Updating Windows" and "11% screen".  Making progress, slowly but progress.

Well, Windows 10 install finished sometime over night.  It does work but I wouldn't call it usable.  It is in much need of more horsepower.    Will try to determine which kind, CPU, memory or all of the above.  My money is on the CPU is just too darn slow, don't see a lot of disk access so probably not paging.  Task Manager says mega CPU usage on interrupts, guessing video driver since no 910GML driver for Windows 10.   Only XPDM.

Don't think it is worth trying another processor without video support.
Just too old guess it's limit will be Windows 7.

Decided to do some long overdue software updating last week on one of our Fedora servers.  We are now running OpenSSL 1.0.2e, CURL 7.47.7 with HTTP/2, Apache 2.4.18 with HTTP/2 and PHP 5.5.32.   Our main web app still uses PHP's mysql interface which is now deprected.  We are having to change to mysqli which is easy for the most part just takes time to make some of the necessary changes.  Some places have direct mysql calls but most have them in wrapper functions so it will be easy to update.

As of today (02/26/2016), it appears all the mysql functions have been switched to mysqli.  Yay.  Might just go ahead with PHP 5.6 or 7 soon.  Not enough hours in the day.

The Fedora server is still version 8 by name but that is just about where it stops.  Being a geek, I update things using the source and build them myself... tweek here and there never hurts either :)