Valefor

My Laptop’s hard drive died on me. It was beeping at me the other day and I had no idea what it was. Turned out it was my hard drive. Since then it hasn’t been able to boot. I’m hoping it’s some booting problem and rewriting the MBR later with a live cd will fix it but I honestly don’t know if that will work or not. If not I might have a problem getting the files off the drive which sucks. Most everything is up in a SVN server but I haven’t committed stuff to it in a while since I haven’t been using more then one computer.

I’ll also probably buy a new hard drive today since I’m 99% sure the new MBR won’t help and I still want to use this laptop since I can’t site over with Caitlin since my Desktop is near all of my music equipment. I’ll just keep the hard drive sealed until the knoppix trial doesn’t work and then I’ll open up the new HD. I haven’t decided what version of linux to put on the laptop. I was thinking about foresight but I want something that really always works without trouble, so I’m thinking about Fedora atm. I want to try it out again since 7 came out. I have it currently on my desktop (since yesterday) and they sped up Yum a lot which is great. Emacs installed with no trouble. I’m a bit annoyed that slime isn’t in the repo’s and a lot of emacs addons aren’t either. Just creates extra work, but I do feel I have more control of my system then with Ubuntu. I feel Ubuntu is great but I don’t feel I have total control….. OH WAIT.

I’ll try Debian unstable again. That might be a good idea. Now I want to finish work to get home and try that out!

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