Brian Ortiz

Got my hard drive on Monday, so by now I’m pretty settled in. I know it sounds like I’m moving to a new house or something, but for the past two weeks I’ve been using Linux on my server, and I’ve felt like I’ve had a bag over my head. This is absolutely nothing against Linux, I suppose it’s just the effect of being in a different environment. It’s really hard to get things done with this sort of feeling. It’s a bit like jet lag I guess.

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One of those miscellaneous blog posts…

So yesterday my fresh Windows installation on a new hard drive started freezing on me. Not only that, but I was getting write errors. (Little yellow popup in the corner saying Windows couldn’t write something to the hard drive.) I was afraid that it was dying, especially since a lot of the reviews said things about the drive being DOA or dying shortly after installation. So, trying not to panic, I tried using different data and power cables. Which thankfully worked. But like an idiot, I switched out both at the same time so I don’t know which it was. I’m thinking it was the power cable though because it was using a whatever-to-SATA adapter, which I switched to my PSU’s only SATA power plug.

Also, the 200GB hard drive I had Linux installed on decided to jump on the death bandwagon and die too. Unlike the other hard drive that died, this one had things on it that I will miss. Although they are probably replaceable. So now I have to figure out how I want to install Linux. I’m thinking of trying out Ubuntu. I had Gentoo installed before. I like Gentoo, but it’s much better as a server than desktop because people don’t generally want to have to recompile their kernel when they decide to install a CD burner or the like. (I’m not saying it’s completely necessary, blah blah…) Some people just want it to work. And you can’t say I’m lazy cause my server runs Gentoo.

I’m hosted on my home Linux server now. GG