\nAnother hard drive failure. Ticking noises too – this one’s almost definitely a drive failure at the hardware layer. I decided that enough was bloody enough and bought a brand-new 250 GB unit from Fry’s, and incredibly, it took less than two hours from the time I got home for everything to be back to normal with an extra 90 GB of storage space.\n<\/p>\n
\nYou can rest assured that I’m putting all the virtual machines back on here. XP, Vista, and two different Ubuntu flavors, plus a local .Mac disk and some more of the movies and ripped TV shows (every ep of Coupling and Father Ted both!) now that I have room on the local drive coupled with adequate backup space for the whole thing. I guess I’m making a permanent jump to the quarter-terabyte world…this drive is literally a thousand times more capacity than I had in the hard drive of my first Mac fourteen years ago. (“Moore’s Law…been very, very good to me.”)\n<\/p>\n
\nGood thing I passed the bloody exam, hm?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Another hard drive failure. Ticking noises too – this one’s almost definitely a drive failure at the hardware layer. I decided that enough was bloody enough and bought a brand-new 250 GB unit from Fry’s, and incredibly, it took less than two hours from the time I got home for everything to be back to … <\/p>\n