Cymro

In other words

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

FUCK

FUCK FUCK

Yeah, so the new PC's had it's first major spaz. The Primary HD has gone completely psycho, probably because I fucked around with the boot sector too much, but it seems to be working now. I had noticed that the XP partition was coughing up a shitload of disk errors but I thought it was just Azeureus being shitty.

Only problem is I can't install XP because my best mate has the disk and the fucker's in France (this post brought to you by Windows Vista: Ultimate Crapfest Edition), and I've probably lost most of my Game save data, as well as some minor bits and pieces that are replaceable, but I'd rather not. Yipeee!

Good news is my second HD, where I store most of my crap like Software installers, Music, Films etc. is working perfectly, and nearly all of that stuff is backed up on the old machine anyway. But still, this is totally fucked up - I was planning on reformatting the fucking thing THIS WEEKEND and I could have avoided the data loss.

Worst thing is, this is what happened to my old PC when I fucked around with Linux on that too.

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Cymro

Well, I just realised there was something irreplacable on the Drive; all the modelling work I'd done.

Well, that's another project terminated prematurely

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Bean

Morale of the story... STOP FUCKING AROUND WITH YOUR HARD DISKS!

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"I haven't faced death. I've cheated death. I've tricked my way out of death and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity. I know nothing."

--James T. Kirk

Cymro

Moral of the story is that if you do fuck around with your hard disks, back up first.

I don't really understand how this happened though - I partitioned the drive into 3 parts when I first got it, cause I knew I wanted one XP, one other OS and one for Application installs, the only one I used for Linux and Vista was the second one - which was working fine, but I noticed yesterday that the XP bit was choc-full of errors and before I could fix it stopped rebooting.

This cheered me up though:

link

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Bean

That's awesome!

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"I haven't faced death. I've cheated death. I've tricked my way out of death and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity. I know nothing."

--James T. Kirk

Cymro

See, this is why I'm glad software piracy exists. Someone has my discs, I can't get them back, so I just download a new one. It's great, it's not illegal and the only way of doing it is via filesharing because nobody else offers a similar service.

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Bean

Not that I'm one to judge, but are you sure about that?

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"I haven't faced death. I've cheated death. I've tricked my way out of death and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity. I know nothing."

--James T. Kirk

Cymro

I own a copy of the game, I have the receipts to prove it. It actually is illegal in this country, but technically so is downloading and burning off from iTunes - it's not enforced and will be changed.

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Cymro

So, I've just done my fourth or fifth reformat in the last three weeks. I've changed the SATA cable incase it was faulty, but if this install gets corrupt I'm gonna have to take advantage of the warranty and rob an IDE drive from the old machine for the time being. I should NOT be having these kinds of problems with a 3 month old HD.

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Cymro

Well, the CPU's been redlining on temperature while rendering on LW and playing COD4 (i.e. prolonged periods of heavy CPU loads). I took the Heatsink off and the thermal gel stuff seems to have vanished(?), and it's been warm recently. I can still run the thing but I don't want to risk it overheating so I'm running the old machine till I can buy more of that shitty paste for the CPU.

Needed to do some maintainance on this old piece of shit anyway, I leave it in the Living Room as a media center and it keeps crashing. Seems to have been a software issue as I've reformatted and it's running fine now. I suppose that's what I get for setting it up half assed.

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."