The computer that serves you this page is dying. Not yet, but bits and pieces are falling apart.
My vintage CD burner has been generating more frisbee than ever. It started last week, and has so far produced half a dozen useless coasters. Using cdrecord, it would report that CD writing has achieved nirvana speed at 120x! But in fact my circa ’99 Ricoh 6 speed burner just decided to drop all the frames. It has been producing sermon CD’s for the last 2 and half, so it pretty much reaches the end of an optical product.
And then it’s my hard drive that spills DMA uncorrectable error. It is not the 5 years old 9 Gb Quantum died from my last move, but the remaining 18-month-old 60 Gb Seagate Barracuda that has been sick lately. Dodgy dodgy drive, but it contains everything I have on it. Better remember to back up before it is too late.
Or is it a sign for getting new hardware? :)
time to export the blogs out … 18 months old drive failing? they don’t make harddisk like they used to anymore.
Hmm… I think it’s a sign :P
Well, I don’t know much about computers. All I know is that… they don’t like me -_-…
Hard drives don’t work like they used to anymore either. These fellas spins at 7500 revolutions per minute with sub-millimeter clearance. That’s going ’round the circle 125 times in a tick of a second. Even my Camry’s engine would cough spinning that fast.
But yes, time to export blogs out. Backup time!
Well. I am running incremental backup every night, and burn onto CDs every week. But still, more back up the merrier.
And does anyone have any decent hardware that you want to donate to me? :) Any 1+Ghz boxes would do, which would put it around 3 years old. I dont know how long this dual celeron would last. A few more weeks and it would be 5 years running non-stop (except for maintenance and moving)