posted 2003/02/03 at 01:10
So while I was taking a break from homework, I figured I'd finally cut a mix CD with all the songs I've been wanting to listen to lately. But when I go to start ripping CDs, my CD-R drive doesn't want to do anything. Not even open. So I power down my computer and check the connections to the CD-R drive, then power back up. The computer freezes in boot-up, then when I reboot from there all of a sudden I have no video drivers, and get stuck at 640 by 480, 16 colour, so the fact that my CD-R drive is now working properly isn't exactly exciting me. After not a few attempts, I finally get the video drivers reinstalled and the CD made, but good grief the last thing in the world I need right now is to have my computer die on me.
This thing's living on a wing and a prayer right now as it is. The fan hasn't worked in over a year and a half, so I have to keep running the thing with the case open, and dust just collects all over the place. Not to mention that I fried two hard drives in this thing, one shortly before the house fire then again right as I started my first full-time semester at UT, and right now I'm only running on six gigs. It still does what I need it to do, but I'd still like it to do more, you know?
I've actually been thinking about my next computer purchase recently, although I really can't do anything about it right now because I'm flat broke. But my father's converting one of our really old PCs (the first one I bought with my own money, actually -- a Pentium 133 from what was then Gateway 2000) into a music station, and with all my composition stuff on that computer, provided I backed everything off of this computer for future reference, I could finally go Linux. But making the adjustment would probably be difficult, and with my closest Linux guru just coming back from his honeymoon, I don't want to have to pester him with a whole bunch of questions about what I'm doing. But I also don't like that all the Windows computers these days don't come with the actual Windows CD, only a reinstall CD that blows away all your old data. (You don't want to know how many of my computer problems I've solved just by reinstalling Windows on top of itself.)
As if I don't have more pressing concerns right now, I know. But the way things are going, I'm half expecting my computer to catch fire before I get this entry posted. Let's see if I can beat it out ...
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