happened while I was absent.
(rant alert – in case you haven’t guessed yet)
About 24 hours ago my screen went blank in the middle of writing a post to a discussion. Nothing I did would make it come back up. I little trouble shooting and it looked like the VGA card, and bit more trouble and it turned out to be a post boot sync error by the monitor itself. In the meantime, trying to get another graphics card working meant I had a mess of messed up graphics drivers. Arrgh.
I’m just getting that sorted when the power goes, and guess what else went at the same time – yep the UPS chose that exact second to leave with the power. Over the following six hours power was up and down five times, catching me in mid work each time.
When it finally came back up permanently about ten hours ago, I finally able to get my system started again. But it’s so scrambled now I had to actually finish building the replacement I’ve been meaning to switch too for four months. And spent the rest of the day getting it up to where I want it with all the apps tuned right and critical data transferred.
Oh woe is me, my bloody external hard drive doesn’t want to play nice now and won’t let me have my back up data back. So back to the original, carefully rebuild that and copy the data to DVD and carry it across.
Now I’m back to where I was this time yesterday and in bad need of some sleep.
Only good thing to come out of this is I’m now working with SimplyMepis 8 because I want my KDE 3.5 and not KDE 4 – so I switched back from Kubuntu.
I’ve still got a lot of data to move across, but should get that done. The big issue now is my pages of web site passwords. I couldn’t get it to export so I brought them up and did screen shots, and now have to log in to them all and save the passwords again. Oi vey, what a task – but I’ll leave that for later.
For some years I’ve had NO trouble, but now it all comes at once. Arrgh.
If I bite anyone’s head off in the next day or so, I apologise in advance as I don’t really mean it, but am a bit short on patience at the moment.
