A poor 2 weeks for tech

Kerry — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:56:00 +0100

So the last 2 weeks have been abysmal when it comes to tech in my household.

Firstly, my Western Digital Netcenter crapped out. It seems that the disk is totally screwed. Not great for something 9 months old.

Then after doing an emerge the dri for the Ati graphics card in my laptop totally borked, still haven’t got it working again, and I’m not even sure what the problem is. So no mplayer on my laptop at the moment, this isn’t that bad since all the media was on my Netcenter.

Then this morning something I really didn’t want to happen happened. My server was powered off, and it won’t power on. This stores all my code in svn, present and past company documents, and most of the important stuff I work on. It was periodically backing up to the Netcenter. After a quick trip into town and a visit to Maplin for an external USB sata hard disk caddy, I managed to get all the data back. The disk is fine but it looks like the power supply might be toasted.

Oh well, here’s looking forward to a better couple of weeks coming up. It’s certainly time to go for something more permanent in the data storage/backup arena, and maybe a UPS to boot.

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A poor 2 weeks for tech