HD Failure
My Powerbook’s hard-disk failed. So I’ll be completely offline for a week or more.
I was attempting to migrate to Ubuntu Linux at the time, so I had thought that all the slow boot-ups and IO errors I was experiencing might have been my own fault, the result of me and gparted messing up my partition table together, but it looks like I was wrong. I wasted a good four days last week trying to move all my data into a new system that was never going to work. I’m out of patience, so when I get my Powerbook back, I’ll be sticking with MacOS.
After a HD failure, I’m keen to go back to something that, famously, “just works.” Being alone in a foreign country, where you don’t speak the language, without email access, the web, Skype, and a computer to write on is just too traumatic. No more fiddling, as I promised Annnette a few days ago.
Isn’t Ubuntu Linux the thing you’ve been trying to persuade me to try out..? :P
Sasha
21 Nov 05 at 0:17
Yeah, it is. Mind you, it’s a lot more reliable on x86 than on PPC. It beats Windows, but it doesn’t beat MacOS X.
In any case, when you get your CDs you should be able to try it out using the LiveCD, without installing it over Windows.
And bear in mind that it wasn’t Linux’s fault that my computer died. When the HD finally died, I knew that had been the problem all along. I’m just going back to OS X because it works and I’m tired of messing with my computer.
Ben Hourigan
22 Nov 05 at 13:20
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