Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Blue Screen Blues I killed my computer for a couple days. Unintentionally, no statement involved. I didn't mean to kill it - it was an accident. It wouldn't start up. just a big blank blue screen, cousin of microsofts big empty blue screen, your computer's way of telling you, "Yes I'm not functioning, but don't worry be happy". I'm not sure exactly what it was: the "user wheel" got corrupted, or something in the start-up folder. In the end I solved it in the time honored Apple/Mac way of going in through a start-up disc and randomly moving files out the system libray folder then restarting until it finally let me log in. Now though the bonds of trust between my data and this, the machine they live in are strained . Such mission critical data as oh say ... a picture of my niece falling off a pogo stick . An Mp3 of the Didjits doing the original version of Killboy Powerhead - opposed to the Offspring's cover. Husker Du's In a Free Land Important stuff like that. Also I never want to see the words /sbin/ fsck -y / ,  /sbin /mount -uw / again. Or anything of the sort. chmod 1775! reboot! 9:46:28 AM    comment [];trackback [];

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