I’ve moved and internet is alive again. Another IP address, so I updated my DNS records. The server should be reachable soon as the DNS-update propagates.
Oct 262012
Oct 232012
Tomorrow is the big day. I will be moving back to Rotterdam, in fact to my “old” house. Here the house is filled with boxes and the cats seem to know something is going on. They like the boxes though!
My muscles ache, but I’ll have to hold on for one more day. One more day of packing, moving stuff around, throwing old stuff away. One more day. Pfffff…..
Oct 162012
Last week my PC died. I was working in Windows, went to the living room for some coffee or something else, and when I came back there was an error on the screen telling me that Windows couldn’t not find this and that volume (the D: drive). Not sure why this was, I restarted Windows only to find that it would not boot without checking the faulty volume.
But it took ages to get even some progress, so I restarted again. Same story. I thought: let’s really powerdown by flipping the switch on the backside of the PC. So I did. Flipping it on again blew out the power in the whole room. And the bedroom. A fuse blew! Restoring the power brought everything back to live, except my PC. Dead as a doornail.
Earlier I bought a new powersupply, to no rescure: more was broken. Yesterday I bought a new motherboard, an Intel Core i5-3570 CPU and 16GB of memory to go with that. I installed the whole shebang, only to find that Windows does not like major changes. Windows is autistic. I tried the repair option by booting from the Windows DVD, but that did not help a bit.
So I reinstalling my system now. Great. No dataloss I guess, the data is not on the Windows disk.