Ahhhh! Back online. Just finished rebuilding my main machine because of what looks like a bad IDE drive on my motherboard. The hard drive is toast and on it's way back to Western Digital to be replaced. Still have a lot of software to reinstall so I haven't had much time to do anything else. Hopefully over the next couple of days I will get everything back to where it should be.
major bummers of the crash...
I had backed up Quicken and put the password protected zip file on the server just in case the computer crashed but I forgot what the password was. I'll have to go back like five months now and do it all again.
I lost my saved game for Call of Duty: United Offensive. Not a huge loss though because I love that game and could easily play it again and I should be able to turn up the details and screen resolution to make it look even nicer.
Doh! Another occurence of Leche's Law. Leche's Law states 'If it's a long weekend, Leche will have computer problems that will take the whole weekend to fix and he will get nothing accomplished.' True to form I had problems this weekend. I didn't give in and waste all my time looking at it though because I've done that too many times before. Looks like my motherboard is toast and it took out my 80 gig hard drive as it went. Now I have to go shopping for a new motherboard. I am totally not in the mood to be spending money on computer stuff right now. There's better things I could be spending my money on and I have a back up machine. I'll have to see what the week has in store for me tomorrow. Maybe I will make a Fry's run at the end of the week if my mood changes.
I'm thinking I should try Linux as my desktop OS. I'll have to check out Wine, a program that let's you run Windows programs on the Linux desktop and see just how easy it would be.
I got a new toy the other day. A Slim Designs Squeezebox. Thanks to Hookaman's cat5 networking skills I was able to plug it in behind the TV and stream MP3s from the DOH! Network server to my tuner. Hooka has something similar from HP that lets him show images on his TV also but I got the Squeezebox because it's the only one I've found that works with Linux servers. It also streams to the Internet so I can listen to my music when I am away from home (Still have to figure out the proxies at work before I can listen there). Only bummer is it makes all those songs downloadable from the Internet too which could get me in trouble with the RIAA. That's why my streaming server is password protected and I am not sharing the link with everybody. Sorry.
I'd have linked all the mentionables above but I am doing my update in 'vi' and it's too much trouble to do all the linking.
Auuugh! I hate old notebook computers. They just don't want to get with the program. I'm trying to get an old Toshiba with Windows 95 to recognize a Linksys wireless network card and it's a big pain in the neck. I finally figured out how to get the software to let me reinstall after it crashed on the first install but now that it's on, I get an error that I looked up on the Internet and people are saying it's a conflict with the Voodoo videocard drivers. This stupid notebook doesn't have a Voodoo videocard and never has. At least my sister's notebook computer and wireless router were relatively easy to setup or else I'd have twice as much trouble to deal with.
The DOH! Network server was down a couple of days ago due to a problem with the modem losing sync. i added an extra phone line filter in the mix and DSL connection seems to be staying pretty stable. Hopefully it will continue and we won't have any more surprise outages.
Doh! I don't know if it's legit or not but I got an e-mail today from somebody claiming to be Richard Cheese's people asking if I could change the 'Harpo Sings' Flash animation to feature more Richard Cheese and have a more prominent link to his site. Now don't get me wrong. I love Richard Cheese as much as anybody* but I lost the Flash source for that movie like a year or two ago. Ah well. Harpo doesn't have a website anymore anyway so no loss. Richard Cheese does have a site though and you can check that out here.
* In a hetero way. Not that there's anything wrong with the other way.