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RIP Igor (the server)
May. 12th, 2012 08:57 pmIt appears that igor, my file and print server, is well and truly dead. After about seven years of service I finally pulled the plug on it last night. It was not only not booting from any hard drive I tried in it, it may have been actively clobbering the hard drives and/or USB drives I was booting it from. My time is worth enough, and computer hardware is cheap enough, that I can't justify putting any more time into trying to figure out what's going on.
Now it's time to play musical computers:
* My laptop will become my primary development/ham radio machine. As I type this on the laptop I am doing some maintenance on the hard drive, after which I'll be installing my ham radio programs. One bit of lemonade in this saga of lemons is that I have igor's monitor hooked up to the laptop, giving me a dual screen display. This will let me run propagation software, DX spotting sites and the like in the background while I do primary tasks in the front.
* My daughter has a computer she inherited from her brother that she isn't using. The plan is to put a new hard drive into it and install Windows 7 for my wife, whose computer is at least as old as igor, is still running Windows XP and hasn't had a registry cleaning in all that time.
Yeah. So, finally she will have a computer that will run her Gaia games at a reasonable pace. This is her Mother's day present from the two of us.
* My wife's old computer will, hopefully, become the new igor. It's of the same vintage as igor – in fact it uses the same motherboard – so I don't know how much longer it has left to run or whether it too will start acting berserk, but at least with any luck I'll be able to pull the files off the RAID arrays and onto an external drive.
And that's my Saturday. That, and figuring out why the cable was out at our house (answer: it wasn't, someone had just switched channels). And taking a nap. A nap is definitely on the agenda. And watching Classic Arts Showcase, which I highly recommend. I just learned that there's such a thing as a "Liverpool Oratorio" that Paul McCartney had a hand in. Presumably it's that Liverpool and that Paul McCartney. (I just checked. It is, and it is.)
Now it's time to play musical computers:
* My laptop will become my primary development/ham radio machine. As I type this on the laptop I am doing some maintenance on the hard drive, after which I'll be installing my ham radio programs. One bit of lemonade in this saga of lemons is that I have igor's monitor hooked up to the laptop, giving me a dual screen display. This will let me run propagation software, DX spotting sites and the like in the background while I do primary tasks in the front.
* My daughter has a computer she inherited from her brother that she isn't using. The plan is to put a new hard drive into it and install Windows 7 for my wife, whose computer is at least as old as igor, is still running Windows XP and hasn't had a registry cleaning in all that time.
Yeah. So, finally she will have a computer that will run her Gaia games at a reasonable pace. This is her Mother's day present from the two of us.
* My wife's old computer will, hopefully, become the new igor. It's of the same vintage as igor – in fact it uses the same motherboard – so I don't know how much longer it has left to run or whether it too will start acting berserk, but at least with any luck I'll be able to pull the files off the RAID arrays and onto an external drive.
And that's my Saturday. That, and figuring out why the cable was out at our house (answer: it wasn't, someone had just switched channels). And taking a nap. A nap is definitely on the agenda. And watching Classic Arts Showcase, which I highly recommend. I just learned that there's such a thing as a "Liverpool Oratorio" that Paul McCartney had a hand in. Presumably it's that Liverpool and that Paul McCartney. (I just checked. It is, and it is.)
