‘Ghorah Khar’ is now ‘Kilrah’

Given the bad omen that the old call sign brought my new PC (its motherboard died about 14 days after I built it), I’ve decided to change its name. Granted, the old name was a troublesome Kilrathi colony, the new one is the Kilrathi homeworld which eventually got blown to bits by the Temblor Bomb. …

2008 – Year of the Dead Hardware

Hardware of mine that died this year: 1 Gigabyte GA-8IHPX Pentium IV motherboard – might have died in 2007, I only noticed it this year. 2 IBM DeskStar 75GB harddrives – one of these died with the motherboard, the other died recently, nearly taking all the data with it (they both formed a RAID1 mirror …

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