I find myself seriously lacking hardware, and soon, to be stuck supporting several new systems of various OS.

How do you support it? Software! I’m in the process of creating several various production systems through the joy of virtualization: Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. This is nothing new – it’s been done for years. However, in a pinch, when it’s stable, it’s good enough for testing and development BEFORE deployment. (For instance, I recently discovered that the grsec Linux patches against 2.6.x cause quite an issue with some unsigned 2.6 modules.)

DSP Worx has released a wonderful little shim which uses BASS to allow MOD/S3M/XM and other formats to Windows Media Player.

My laptop has been feeling like it was ‘slowing down,’ quite progressively over the last two weeks.

Of course, it’s been rather warm, and I thought it might have been due to the thermal sensors, but, no, the CPU fan really wasn’t running that hot, and this model laptop has no HD dedicated fan.

Hmm.

So, I decide to check my hard disk. Almost 50% fragmentation. Ow. Now that’s a feat. Of course, only halfway through did the whole system start to ‘stutter’ on a few specific files.

Great.

Abort the optimization, and set for chkdsk. Reboot. Wait three hours. Over 74 dead clusters, and several files lost (thankfully, none belonging to Windows).

So, I let chkdsk fix it. Now what:

Oh. Good. It’s still broken.

Anyone have a spare 2.5” SATA HD that’s at least 80GB they’d like to relinquish control of?

Pretty please?

This has to be the worst thing I’ve ever watched, and I loved Redneck Zombies.

Part One:

Part Two:

There are no words for the pain… at least it has a common theme for the whole story.. nothing these days can handle that. Yay for the world of ADHD, I suppose.