Prepare the probe ship
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There is something really wrong with my laptop and desktop. It's not a virus, but something is killing my hard drives. I've had to completely reinstall my system so many times in that last few months on both my systems, I just figured I was "tinkering" too hard.
However, today, the laptop just up and froze. After trying to find some NTFS diagnostic tools that would run outside of Windows (NTFSDOS, God bless you), I managed to get CHKDSK to run and actually scan the entire disk instead of just checking the files and the disk directly underneath them. The laptop has been stuck at 56% for several hours although it just popped up to 58%.
It makes me think the main computer's hard drive may be going out, and that the memory errors I'm getting aren't me pushing the memory too hard, but the hard drive there going out as well. Which sucks. The 80GB main drive is only three years old, and the laptop's drive is less than a six months old.
Anyways, when it's all said and done, what I should do is put FAT32 back on these machines, and Scandisk the hell out of them. When my 400MB drive back in the day started giving me trouble, it would find new sectors every single pass through scandisk. So I just kept it on a batchfile loop, so it ran ans scanned all night long. When I woke up, I'd lost about 40MB in bad sectors...but it never found another one after that. And with the bad sectors mapped out, nothing ever got put on those problem areas.
What I need are new drives. But that's a long time from now....
Oh, all last week, I watched James Bond movies. :) I'd never really seen them before. My mom was really into them, and I caught one or two, but always throught he was pretty chauvinistic and the Bond Girls were pretty flighty. The first one I saw in it's entirety though was Moonraker, which my mom took me to, because she wanted to see it. I was bored through most of it, until they got into space.
A couple of years ago, I caught it on TV, and really watched it. I got into the globe hopping in it, from California (via France) to Venice to Rio de Janero and finally space...but I was really impressed by Dr. Goodhead (although ot impressed at her name :) ). Despite her woeful lack of emoting, I thought she was really more of a partner to Bond than simply eye candy. I figured there might be more so this month, I actually sat down and watched a LOT of the movies.
They're really damned good. :D I dig the constant globe hopping, and espionage, although those Europeans filmmakers need to realize that "Being American" does not equal "Louisiana."
And while some of them have the Eye Candy Give Bond Some Sex When He Demands It girls, most (especially the ones from the late 70s up) actually have Bond Girls who work along side him and complement him, instead of being trophies.
After seeing a million Roger Moore movies, two Timothy Dalton movies, one George Lazenby movie, one Sean Connery movie and one pseudo Sean Connery movie, I've decided I like Roger Moore best.
In the one movie I saw Sean in, he was a little too womanizing for my tastes, and while Roger had his share of Bond Girls, I think his time during Women's Lib kept the women in more active roles, and out of the sack with him. George Lazenby...well...he came across as a big softy Someone to take on a date, versus on a secret mission. And while Timothy Dalton had great focus and drive...he lacked a little compassion. I couldn't believe him in some of the "treat the girls on the Queen's bill" scenes they had him go through.
Now I wanna see some more Sean Connery - too many people say he's too good for me to dismiss in just 1 and 1 half movies. I'd REALLY like to see some Pierce Brosnan. He was born and bred to be James Bond....
CS
Or here if the RSS feed hasn't caught up.
There is something really wrong with my laptop and desktop. It's not a virus, but something is killing my hard drives. I've had to completely reinstall my system so many times in that last few months on both my systems, I just figured I was "tinkering" too hard.
However, today, the laptop just up and froze. After trying to find some NTFS diagnostic tools that would run outside of Windows (NTFSDOS, God bless you), I managed to get CHKDSK to run and actually scan the entire disk instead of just checking the files and the disk directly underneath them. The laptop has been stuck at 56% for several hours although it just popped up to 58%.
It makes me think the main computer's hard drive may be going out, and that the memory errors I'm getting aren't me pushing the memory too hard, but the hard drive there going out as well. Which sucks. The 80GB main drive is only three years old, and the laptop's drive is less than a six months old.
Anyways, when it's all said and done, what I should do is put FAT32 back on these machines, and Scandisk the hell out of them. When my 400MB drive back in the day started giving me trouble, it would find new sectors every single pass through scandisk. So I just kept it on a batchfile loop, so it ran ans scanned all night long. When I woke up, I'd lost about 40MB in bad sectors...but it never found another one after that. And with the bad sectors mapped out, nothing ever got put on those problem areas.
What I need are new drives. But that's a long time from now....
Oh, all last week, I watched James Bond movies. :) I'd never really seen them before. My mom was really into them, and I caught one or two, but always throught he was pretty chauvinistic and the Bond Girls were pretty flighty. The first one I saw in it's entirety though was Moonraker, which my mom took me to, because she wanted to see it. I was bored through most of it, until they got into space.
A couple of years ago, I caught it on TV, and really watched it. I got into the globe hopping in it, from California (via France) to Venice to Rio de Janero and finally space...but I was really impressed by Dr. Goodhead (although ot impressed at her name :) ). Despite her woeful lack of emoting, I thought she was really more of a partner to Bond than simply eye candy. I figured there might be more so this month, I actually sat down and watched a LOT of the movies.
They're really damned good. :D I dig the constant globe hopping, and espionage, although those Europeans filmmakers need to realize that "Being American" does not equal "Louisiana."
And while some of them have the Eye Candy Give Bond Some Sex When He Demands It girls, most (especially the ones from the late 70s up) actually have Bond Girls who work along side him and complement him, instead of being trophies.
After seeing a million Roger Moore movies, two Timothy Dalton movies, one George Lazenby movie, one Sean Connery movie and one pseudo Sean Connery movie, I've decided I like Roger Moore best.
In the one movie I saw Sean in, he was a little too womanizing for my tastes, and while Roger had his share of Bond Girls, I think his time during Women's Lib kept the women in more active roles, and out of the sack with him. George Lazenby...well...he came across as a big softy Someone to take on a date, versus on a secret mission. And while Timothy Dalton had great focus and drive...he lacked a little compassion. I couldn't believe him in some of the "treat the girls on the Queen's bill" scenes they had him go through.
Now I wanna see some more Sean Connery - too many people say he's too good for me to dismiss in just 1 and 1 half movies. I'd REALLY like to see some Pierce Brosnan. He was born and bred to be James Bond....
