May. 1st, 2006

helen99: A windswept tree against a starlit sky (Default)
This morning, the computer would not boot up. If anyone emailed I didn't get it yet. The current plan is to 1) use an external hard drive bay to conect the hard drive to a laptop and determine if the data is at all visible. Then 2) get another hard drive and slave the old one to it, and copy the data after booting from the new drive.

On the bright side, I may now be able to upgrade to a later version of Debian so I can get a better version of openoffice.org running. Then again, my computer tends to get tired of certain distros after a while, and then I can never load that distro on it again. If that happens, then I guess we'll try Ubuntu.

We tried shutting it off, resetting it, and opening it up and making sure all the cards and drives were properly seated/connected. Nope. It may be the board itself - that would make things a bit more difficult hardware-wise but I'd still rather it was that than losing a couple of years worth of environment-building by three people. Oh well. If it's gone, it's gone. I suspect that the little magnets on the fridge may have reached critical mass. One or two by themselves probably wouldn't do it, but they had accumulated up to about 20 or more, and I never noticed. Together they might have built a field that reached over to the computer, dunno. Anyway, I took them all off the fridge. Still haven't thrown them away though - some of them are cool. Maybe I'll bury them out back.
helen99: A windswept tree against a starlit sky (Default)
"Define Happy," I said.

"Happy is a state in which you pay full attention to what is 'happening'. 'Happening.' 'Happy.' Get it (wink)? Not 'what should happen', or 'what did happen', but what is happening exactly now."

Driving to work, I noticed the road. In order to drive on a road, you have to think of your destination. How do I convert a road into something "Happy" (using the above definition). Of course you have to pay enough attention not to hit something, but it's still more of a hallway than a "place of being". The following was the answer, which was detectable somewhere at the back of my skull: "Picture driving along the road as flying. You're a couple of feet above the ground, are you not? You're propelling along, are you not? Even though the car may contact the ground, you are flying. Stopping at a red light is perching to enjoy the sunlight. Enjoy being a part of the avian kingdom for a bit. Enjoy flying."
helen99: A windswept tree against a starlit sky (Default)
Why don't I get rid of my old 200 MHz? Because it has never crashed throughout countless upgrades since I got it in 1993. Using it now to write this and check email. Everything else has crashed at one point or another (don't even get me started about the Possessed Motherboard of Horror that I bought a few years ago). The Debian box was probably the longest lived of all of them. Eh well, not giving up yet but it doesn't look good so far...

The 200 MHz is too painful to be a permanent solution, though. I need to get rid of it.

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