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Wednesday, September 26th, 2001
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1:28a - Mmmm...
At first light lay proud foundations.
Sense the greatness that before you unfolds.
Seek no more for hollow answers.
Answers that lay within you all along.
Farewell to dawns seen through saddened eyes.
Farewell to pasts to sorrows chained.
Forget your fears.
You will have everything.
You will be strong and want no more.
You'll be adored.
You will have everything.
Forget your fears and want no more.
Arclight
? VNV Nation 1999
current mood:  pleased (comment on this)
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3:56a - BITCH MOTHAFUCKA
Goddamit.
So... I'm sitting here playing Arcanum and all of a sudden my computer spontaneously reboots on my. I think to myself, "What the fuck?!?"
Then it doesn't even finish booting and the screen goes black and my system just starts beeping. Just one long beep, pause, another long beep, pause, beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
ARGH!
Not motherboard beep codes!!
NOOOOOOOOOOO.
This can only mean one thing.
*cringe* Hardware failure. *wince*
Fuck.
Okay, I've still got my trusty P-100 linux box that I've set aside for so long. Time to get that thing connected to the cable modem. I set it aside mostly 'cuz it wouldn't connect and was pissing me off.
So I hook it up, check the wiring, check the configs... oh goddammit. The ONE thing I hadn't checked all this time. The firewall script. It fuckin' has the old IP address set. Sonuvabitch. So I fix that, and lo! I can Ping! I have connectivity! YES! I'm not as dumb as I look! Woo!
Okay, so I download the pdf manual, curse because the pdf viewer wasn't installed and I have to download and install that too, then dig around the manual for the beep codes.
Alright... beep code says... what!?! No DRAM installed!??! You piece of shit!
Okay, so its not as bad as it could have been. I pull one DDR module... nope, still rebooting... pull the other one... VIOLA... my main system is up and running, if only with 256 megs instead of the full 512.
Ah well. Looks like I'll just buy myself a single 512mb module when I have the spare cash. I think I can cope for now.
Ugh. I hate when this shit happens.
At least I'm not like one of our fucking customers and sit there stupified saying, "But it worked yesterday."
Yeah, no shit asshole. It worked yesterday and now its fucking broke. Shut up and fix it, don't try to rationalize it. Shit breaks. End of story. Fix it and move on.
I swear, if people said this kind of stupid shit to their auto mechanic the mechanic would laugh them right out of the shop. But NOOOOOOOO, because computers are some mystical magical being, these questions seem perfectly reasonable to these mongoloids.
Just try telling an auto mechanic, "But it was working yesterday..." and see if he doesn't laugh at you.
Oh, and if any of you that read my ramblings ever decides to get DSL I'm gonna come to your house one night, and while you sleep I'm gonna beat you.
current mood:  annoyed
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