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[cabbitzilla]

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I give up. I've got a working machine at C&K's... this next weekend I'll cart my pile of drives down there and find out which work and which get pitched. I'm tired of playing the mismatched box of parts game. I quit. I _KNOW_ Annex works. It already has a functioning install on the main drive. If my secondaries are recognized then the whole damned thing will come home with me to become Cave. I generally have my laptop when I'm at C&K's nowadays, so the machine there isn't being used anyway... and I need a workhorse here. The laptop's a wonderful beasty, but things like DVD burning and WoW make it chug like an old steam locomotive going up a long rise.

So I quit. The pile o'bits wins. I'll sift it later when I have the patience to handle the hardware; at the moment I'm more likely to start hurling things at the walls. I'm going to bed. Screw this.

I used to be able to do this shit. I used to maintain hundreds of machines, and now I can't even fix my own. How much of my mind has rotted away?

Comments

[wibbble]

Eh, you know as well as I that sometimes one machine can defeat you when a hundred will behave.

Especially since your one machine is likely to be more of an 'individual' than a building full of workstations.

When hardware goes bad, even the best of us can't bring it back - and when one thing goes the repairs are likely to turn up other marginal components. We've remote-rebooted boxes at work to find that half the hardware died - it was all just hanging on, waiting for someone to look at it wrong.

*hugs* Your mind's still there, hardware's just being evil.

[usagiweaver.livejournal.com]

It sounds like your mind is fine. Your components are the ones that have rotted away.