My system had a little oops today. Which is kind of like a BSOD, only your system MIGHT still work. Mine didn't. I'm kind of sad though, because this is just a few days after I turned off OOPS reporting for some reason, probably in search of more performance. I wont do that again, in case something happens again ( Read more... )

Ugh. I broke the first rule of hunting. I spilled my beer. I wasn't really hunting at the time, but unfortunately the beer landed on Das Keyboard. Its had a cycle through the dishwasher as I've heard to do once it started spazzing out, so I'm using a `regular' keyboard for the time being ( Read more... )

Today I finished cleaning up all my documents and pictures and stuff stored on my hard drive. And I don't mean deleting, but organizing. Its hard to make backups if your data isn't organized (Reminder: Could you afford to lose all of your data tomorrow ( Read more... )

I started the order for a new computer, and it should actually work, unlike this one sometimes. Its the cheapest alienware model, but with 4 cores and nVidia instead of ATi. I know that ATi is improving their support for Linux, but currently nVidia just does better. It also comes with Windows Vista, and I'll keep that for Wine development. It ( Read more... )

My computer's dying again: this time it seems a little more serious. I'm getting

Hardware Error
CPU 0 Machine Check Exception: 4 Bank 4: b200000000070f0f
TSC: 104ba550f7
This is not a software problem!
So rather than just patch up this machine again, I'm looking to buy a new computer. This will be the first computer I've bought all at once since the ( Read more... )

Well, my computer's on the fritz again: bad hard drive this time. Tomorrow, I'm going to reinstall my OS onto a 20GB HD I have lying around, but the 80GB is dead -- it can't even spin up. I'm wondering if its still under warranty - I may be able to get it fixed. But my sound card is going out, but I'm wondering if that's an effect of my power ( Read more... )