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7 September 2006
I hate debugging
7 September 2006 16:39Got back from Dragon Con to discover that my WinXP tower (Bagel & Cream Cheese) won't boot up. Today I blocked out a few hours to try fixing the darn thing. CHKDSK immediately told me that it has one or more unrecoverable errors on Bagel, the boot disk. Right now I'm running chkdsk on Cream Cheese. After this, I'll try FIXBOOT and FIXMBR. If that doesn't work, I'll be out of ideas.
That $300 tower from Tiger Direct is no longer available. I'm seriously thinking about driving down to Micro Center and dropping $400 (after taxes) on a tower. I've been saving up for one for a while anyway, and while I'm slightly less than halfway to the target price, I spent way less at D*Con than I intended on booze. I was planning on spending that cash on clothing, but this seems more important, even if it little more than a bittorrent directory for me right now.
If I do get a new computer, then it'll be fast enough to run Civ 4. Given that the semester has just started, the movie I'm helping with, and the MUSH I just started coding for, the trip to Hong Kong.....maybe that's unwise.
Then there's the fact that Spore will eventually be coming out. I'll need a new computer for that. But should I hurry up and purchase it now just because the old one is broken?
On top of this, Chapati, my laptop, is already experiencing some problems. There's the battery recall, and now my keyboard is starting to act funky. Plus, whenever I close the clamshell while it's still running, it doesn't wake properly - I always have to reboot.
Edit: Turns out the reason that chkdsk immediately failed is because it can't even find my boot disk due to an installation error I never fixed from three years ago. Frustration has now replaced common sense, and I'm running off to buy a new tower. This decision was made slightly easier by the fact that I've apparently caught Convention Cold, and so shouldn't attend the fire circle tonight, despite finally remembering to block out time in my life for it.
That $300 tower from Tiger Direct is no longer available. I'm seriously thinking about driving down to Micro Center and dropping $400 (after taxes) on a tower. I've been saving up for one for a while anyway, and while I'm slightly less than halfway to the target price, I spent way less at D*Con than I intended on booze. I was planning on spending that cash on clothing, but this seems more important, even if it little more than a bittorrent directory for me right now.
If I do get a new computer, then it'll be fast enough to run Civ 4. Given that the semester has just started, the movie I'm helping with, and the MUSH I just started coding for, the trip to Hong Kong.....maybe that's unwise.
Then there's the fact that Spore will eventually be coming out. I'll need a new computer for that. But should I hurry up and purchase it now just because the old one is broken?
On top of this, Chapati, my laptop, is already experiencing some problems. There's the battery recall, and now my keyboard is starting to act funky. Plus, whenever I close the clamshell while it's still running, it doesn't wake properly - I always have to reboot.
Edit: Turns out the reason that chkdsk immediately failed is because it can't even find my boot disk due to an installation error I never fixed from three years ago. Frustration has now replaced common sense, and I'm running off to buy a new tower. This decision was made slightly easier by the fact that I've apparently caught Convention Cold, and so shouldn't attend the fire circle tonight, despite finally remembering to block out time in my life for it.
Of course....
7 September 2006 23:51Bought a new computer, which I'm currently emailing you from (I named her Churro). While at Microcenter, I discovered a neat gadget that lets me take an internal harddrive and make it an external USB-port HD that connects to both Macs and WinXP. This means that my old 100GB HD with my entire music (including my personal mixes and CD covers), bit torrent and pr0n collection is now portable!
The bad news: my boot disk HD is toast. I may try to pay to get it repaired. Among the various things I've lost include my entire email archive, including my entire relationship with (f)AD (who comments, "That sucks! The only reason I deleted my copy was because you still had yours!") and Mimi Usagi (which could seriously have been turned into a book with little editing). I've also lost my bookmarks and password collection, which is a hard blow.
Time to start cracking at the odious task of downloading all those progs I had on my old baby. While I'm at it, I'm going to try importing this backup collection from Dec 2005 and see what is on it. When that's done, I'm going to look into finally setting up my LAN, and try to put my printer on the network.
Also, the new computer doesn't seem to recognize my speakers. I may blow an extra $100 on a refurbished sound card rather than try to fix it. I still have high hopes of connecting my computer to the surround sound system in my living room. The wiring and everything is already done, I just need to get the computer to recognize it.
The bad news: my boot disk HD is toast. I may try to pay to get it repaired. Among the various things I've lost include my entire email archive, including my entire relationship with (f)AD (who comments, "That sucks! The only reason I deleted my copy was because you still had yours!") and Mimi Usagi (which could seriously have been turned into a book with little editing). I've also lost my bookmarks and password collection, which is a hard blow.
Time to start cracking at the odious task of downloading all those progs I had on my old baby. While I'm at it, I'm going to try importing this backup collection from Dec 2005 and see what is on it. When that's done, I'm going to look into finally setting up my LAN, and try to put my printer on the network.
Also, the new computer doesn't seem to recognize my speakers. I may blow an extra $100 on a refurbished sound card rather than try to fix it. I still have high hopes of connecting my computer to the surround sound system in my living room. The wiring and everything is already done, I just need to get the computer to recognize it.
