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1. Who has two thumbs and a HD with read heads stuck?
2. Who knows the dreaded "click-klirrrrrr" sound all too well?
3. Who had wisely set up a system to monitor HDs, yet received no warning when shit came raining?
4. Who at least got lucky when it was the secondary HD, not the primary HD, and all the losses can be accepted if some gentle percussive maintenance ( Read more... )

Well, THAT certainly didn't take much time ( Read more... )

Santa thought that I had been masochistically good this year.

So he brought me 160 GB HD and Windows XP Pro. Well, yay!

Of course, this has resulted a furious reinstall of all crap I have, and believe me, that's plenty!

Hours and hours of "fun" with software reinstalls! At least Windows itself was relatively painless... surprising, I know.

Welp, the final installs are now done, and all that remains is that I will go to the store with my util CDs, and check out the Windows computer for all kinds of bugs. Just in case. Better to be safe than sorry ( Read more... )

Installations... are almost done. I got the computer into the network, we did the physical wiring and almost everything is working OK now ( Read more... )

The tea eggs are now done ( Read more... )