Computer woes
At the beginning of December I was away for a work trip, followed by holidays. While I was away, there was a power cut (announced). meglorien was still here then, and rebooted our firewall/web/mail server computer, which didn't come up properly. So when I got back I tried, and found it seemed to be having problems with one of the partitions of the harddrive. I had a nasty cold at the time, so I just connected the wireless router as the internet gateway instead, providing our laptops (and phone) with a network connection. When I got back to trying to fix the computer I got it running from an Ubuntu Live CD and most of the computer seemed to be working fine, so I ordered a new harddrive (in case the old one was failing). Having installed that, and copied over the files OK, I tried setting it up as the internet gateway again, but it appears that the ethernet card that was being used for the outward connection has stopped working, so I need another new bit to get it working. With just the on board ethernet it can talk to the local network, or talk to the internet, but it needs an extra working ethernet card to be able to talk to both and be useful as a firewall gateway.
Our other non-laptop computer (which kept a backup of the gateway, and provided other services, such as DVD player) has not been working for a few months now. There is a motherboard problem with it.
Last monday I got to work to find the computer in my office not working. A new one is on order.
Don't let me touch your computer. Laptops do seem to be immune.
Our other non-laptop computer (which kept a backup of the gateway, and provided other services, such as DVD player) has not been working for a few months now. There is a motherboard problem with it.
Last monday I got to work to find the computer in my office not working. A new one is on order.
Don't let me touch your computer. Laptops do seem to be immune.