Well, I got the hard drive and everything worked OK for awhile, then I started having trouble again. It turns out the problem is in the IDE controller and not the hard drive. That means the motherboard needs replaced. So I contaced HP again, and they overnighted me shipping materials with a [...]
So I got confirmation today that HP is sending me a new HDD. If I had given them enough info yesterday I’d probably have the new HDD already, but alas I didn’t, so I had to send them some more info today. I expect the HDD to arrive Monday.
Anyway, I just want to [...]
Well, it turns out my hard drive in my laptop has gone bad after all. I did manage to backup anything I wanted to one of my flash drives. PC-Check passed the read test but failed the write test. I’ve contacted HP and I should have a new HDD in a day [...]
OK, I know I said I’d eulogize my dead hard drive, but something else has taken precidence. My laptop crashed. It was Monday, I was working and all of a sudden the Blue Screen of Death popped up. Since then, I can’t login without a BSOD. So I booted to the [...]
So last night I was talking with Adam and he told me he had been trying to hack into my network. I checked the logs and sure enough there were some failed login attempts. So today I installed snort on our router. Snort is an intrusion detection system (IDS). It should [...]
OK, we’ll get back to the It’s Dead Jim serious later where I will eulogize my dead hard drive, but for now I thought I’d discuss what I’ve been working on off and on over the past few weeks.
A few years ago, we had a Novell 4.x server and a 12GB tape backup. We [...]
Today’s episode is in honor of my XBox who at the moment cannot access his own hard drive. Thus, he is unable to boot and doesn’t work at all. He needs a name though. I usually just refer to him as my XBox. I’ve never considered naming him before, but [...]
OK, last night my 19″ Dell Trinitron monitor died. It has been dubbed Leonard by a certain individual sometimes known as GreasyGoat.
Alas poor Leonard I knew him well,
He was a Trinitron and he was a Dell
His picture was both sharp and clear
His dot pitch I admired for seven years
Well…
It was a long day yesterday [...]
My Twenty-four port Blackbox Gigabit Managed Ethernet Switch died today. At least I think it’s dead. I’m going to test it out a bit more before I call the manufacturer, but basically all network activity ceased all at once. So I replaced the switch and all was well again. It [...]