Well, it seems as though my computer has finally bit the dust. Last night I noticed it was running a little slow, so I closed amarok (it sometimes uses more resources than it should. It was still running sluggish, so I ran ‘top’ and saw that ‘amarokapp’ was using like, 97% CPU, which means when I closed amarok, it didn’t completly quit every thing out. I went ahead and ran ‘killall –9 amarokapp’, and this is when I ran into trouble. Suddenly my computer cuts off, I look down and the orange hdd light is steady, along with the green cd-rom light. I hit the reset button, but it did nothing, so I held down the power button for a few seconds for it to go completly off. After that, it wouldn’t start back up. So, I am now without a desktop. Right now I’m using my laptop, which has a 2.8ghz celeron and a whoping 128mb ram (talk about bottle neck). It’s running gentoo linux, which makes it run a lot faster than when it had windows xp installed.
I had the phone interview with Northface and everything went very well. I decided to go ahead and apply, after all it’s just $35 and a couple hours of my time to fill out the online application form if I don’t get accepted. If I do get accepted, I’ll be in for a lot of work for the next couple of years.
Prom is tomorrow, and I have to go try on my tux tonight to make sure it fits and everything. I’m going to go pick up my check from work at 1PM. Work has been on and off for the past few months, but supposedly 750 boards have been shipped, and 2000 more are on the way. That should keep us busy for awhile.
I’m really just ranting now, but this post is really just here to let you all know that my computer is down, so I won’t be on aim/yahoo/msn/jabber as much. When I get a chance I’ll make the page IE compatible and get all the other pages up. I wouldn’t worry about making the page look nice on IE, except a great majority of my hits are coming from users on windows, running IE. Speaking of hits, they have been coming in pretty steadily. I think this is because of jokes and other strange articles that get posted that other sites link to.
That’s really all I have to say for now, if for some reason you want to donate to the Rex Needs A New Desktop (RNAND) fund or the Rex Has Future Hosting Bills (RHFHB) fund, shoot me and email and I can give you further directions ;).
May 18th, 2005 at 12:39 am
Hmm…if I shoot you in the head, does that mean that I wont get the directions to send you the money?
May 18th, 2005 at 1:09 am
Is that a threat? Watch it before I report you as a terrorist to the government and they come to raid your casa in search of weapons of mass destruction. ;)