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. …
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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 …
… and it’s dead.
Yep, I knew it was a bad omen when my new PC booted up right away and even the HDD LED was connected the right way (that NEVER happens!), so sure enough, a mere two weeks after getting it, it’s dead. No POST, no matter what I do. Even got a second CPU, no dice. …
It’s alive!
Doctor Frankstein would be so proud, but let’s start this story from the top. In the beginning, there was darkness. Then, a whole lot happened (insert your favourite religious or scientific belief about how Life, the Universe and Everything eventually happened to exist, here) and by the end of the year 2007 A.D., I found …
Procrastination
I don’t know why, but there are times where I am just too lazy to do anything. Unfortunately this little page here is always the first one to get hit by that. So what’s happened in the time that I have not posted a single line here? Not much, been to CeBIT again, you can …