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Dying hard drives and medication fuckups.
Nov. 2nd, 2009 02:18 pmSo for a few months now my desktop has been forcing me to manually FSCK on nearly every reboot, it appeared that there are bad sectors that are no longer holding data, so I came to the conclusion that my hard drive was dying. Decided to wait and decide what to do about it after upgrading to 9.10, just in case it was, on the off chance, ubuntu's fault. Upgraded yesterday. And Karmic comes with the SMART utility thingy, and so as soon as the new distro booted up, that came up and started yelling at me that my hard disk is failing. Got almost 500 bad sectors.
Aside from that, 9.10 is super shiny and even with my busted ass video, is noticeably smoother and faster.
However, now it's refusing to come back from reboot at all not even finding the hard drive. So I'm letting it sit a while. HD may have just finally bit it. The utility guy said it's been powered on for 8.2 years. Man I really get a lot of use out of my hardware, don't I?
If it is dead, it really seems pointless to just replace the hard drive I'ma have to wait and just get a new barebones, as the motherboard is partially busted as it is, seems like if I just get another little IDE drive that the mb will just totally die next.
In other news, I attempted to shift around one of my medications (without consulting anyone, even my pharmacist phriend) with horrible results. I've managed to correct it in time to not fuck up the whole day and my goings back out tomorrow. But it was really dumb. I seriously underestimated the level of fuckedupedness that are my tonsils. That's what I get for trying to doctor myself without professional advice. Dumbass me.
Aside from that, 9.10 is super shiny and even with my busted ass video, is noticeably smoother and faster.
However, now it's refusing to come back from reboot at all not even finding the hard drive. So I'm letting it sit a while. HD may have just finally bit it. The utility guy said it's been powered on for 8.2 years. Man I really get a lot of use out of my hardware, don't I?
If it is dead, it really seems pointless to just replace the hard drive I'ma have to wait and just get a new barebones, as the motherboard is partially busted as it is, seems like if I just get another little IDE drive that the mb will just totally die next.
In other news, I attempted to shift around one of my medications (without consulting anyone, even my pharmacist phriend) with horrible results. I've managed to correct it in time to not fuck up the whole day and my goings back out tomorrow. But it was really dumb. I seriously underestimated the level of fuckedupedness that are my tonsils. That's what I get for trying to doctor myself without professional advice. Dumbass me.
