My phone has been acting dodgy since Festival. This week it got rather worse and Google told me that the symptoms were of a fairly common hardware problem, solution - send it back for repair ( Read more... )

So I have been muttering about buying a new laptop for a while. I had a firm plan to save up for one when we got back from overseas. So this morning I tried to watch an internet video and it was anoyingly stuttery. Then this evening I tried another one and it was a total fail. So I went and looked at prices on the web. I talked to sacred_chao about ( Read more... )

On what feels like attempt 57, but is probably more like 5 or 6 I finally managed to boot with the new hard drive. Go me! Now I just need to remember how to adjust partition size without messing things up too much. At least I now have lots of room in the data partition and can probably move some things to make room in the C partition. Yay for hard ( Read more... )