The 1 Hour Nap

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 | Life

Ok, so I decided to take a quick nap today.  I had it worked out, it wasn’t 5pm yet and I figured I could rest a bit, get up, exercise, take a shower, have some dinner, and then, well whatever.  Of course, plans rarely go as you plan them.

Seems that my body decided to keep sleeping until 10:30.  This is when I normally go to sleep so that I can get up in the morning and go to work.  Alas, now I am awake.  I suppose this is probably for the best since I just finished the post that I started on 3/26.  In finishing that, I am now writing this.  At the same time I am catching up on tv shows.  Prison Break just hit it’s season finale and The Dresden Files is getting pretty good.

My laptop hasn’t been working, well since yesterday as far as I know, but that is a long time for somebody like me.  See I was having trouble booting.  The system would freeze.  Couldn’t get into safe mode on 2 different OS’s.  Also could not start an install cd.  It would freeze during the “setup is starting windows” thing.  This was very consistent on multiple cd’s so it had to be hardware.  I was in no hurry so I 0101′d my HDD.  It didn’t help.  So I did a bios upgrade.  Finally I tore out my wireless card.  It has always worked, but once removed, setup worked.  So I setup XP, then I stuck the card in and the system froze.  Tried to boot ubuntu and other things with the card in, and that wouldn’t work either.  I only have one PCMCIA slot, I know… odd.  Don’t have another card to test to see if it’s the slot, so I am going to just guess that it’s the card.  For now I am using a USB wireless device that I just happened to have laying around (actually it only cost me $9.99 a few months ago, and I haven’t had a use for it yet).

Once I got the system working, I decided to say screw it and I stuck Ubuntu on my laptop as it’s only OS.  It’s not a perfect solution.  The refresh rate is low (though strangely It has a higher more proportional resolution for the wide screen).  This is my only complaint right now, and mostly because  my own site loads weird.  Otherwise I think I will be ok with using linux for the laptop.

               

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