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The boot drive of my livingroom computer started freezing and crashing. I was able to get all my files off of it and onto a 1.5TB external drive, though this took about two nights. I'm not sure why I wasted so much time on that, as I probably could have re-downloaded almost everything on there.
Last night I rebuilt the OS installation and, as a special bonus, hooked up the external drive to a server, and tried to get Samba working on it. This is when I discovered that the server's fan had seized up, and I had no spares. I worked something out:
but I gotta replace it ASAP - it's about as loud as a fucking hair dryer. So, I'm off to do that now. Exciting, no?
No.