blech

for a few weeks, now, i've been fighting off one of the crud-like colds that's been going around. this morning, however, there was a sudden shift in the cold and i've been a fountain of snot all day, alternating between trumpeting nose-blowing and uncontrolled sneezing.

so i figured for the health and sanity of my coworkers, i'd work from home today. and since it's a beautiful brisk sunny day, i've thrown open several windows around the house and have the paddle fans working hard to swap in new air.

hooray for new air.

i hate linux

actually, i think this has just escalated to "i hate computers".

so, i built this linux box a while ago to hold my cd collection as flac-encoded files, and it was running fine and i was happily ripping things.

then it kept wedging and stalling out. and it started complaining about a hard drive that wasn't actually mounted and i'm not sure existed.

so i pulled out the two oldest hard drives (which were both about 6 years old), just on principle. and started re-installing. and it crapped out in the middle of the reinstall. and so i tried it again, and the same thing happened.

and now it won't get past the POST screen -- in fact, i get the bios splash screen and it doesn't recognize me hitting the tab key and yelling "hey, stupid computer! show me the fucking post screen, damn you!"

so i disconnected all the various IDE devices and the floppy disk and i'm in the same situation.

harrumf.