What's this?! a blog update?!

why yes, yes it is

Anyhoo, it's been a while since my last post. Somewhere along the line I noticed the blogs should be used for insightful or otherwise helpful entries... seeing that I'm neither I've waited for something that qualifies under the criterion... so here I am a number of months later and I think I have something!

mATX build Status: in limbo
DFI Jr P45-T2RS
E8500 + TR Ultima-90I
8800GTS...

Well, since my last blog I've gotten a new HD for my laptop. I've loaded both XP and Ubuntu 8.04 on it.
I guess I have to take back "first impressions" as I've been using Xubuntu for my file server for quite a while now.

In all honesty the whole setup for Ubuntu and it's different GUI derivatives has been good with a few caveats. In each installation I've had a few things I've needed to get nitty-gritty with in order to either get functionality I wanted or, in the...

Well i'm excited!
Got a fresh new battery for my aging laptop and some new RAM. Pretty peppy again at this point in time, or rather it would be if the HARD DRIVE HADN'T DECIDED TO CONK OUT

Fast forward 7 hours after realizing it...
Recovery installs and various other methods don't seem to be working. Looks like the drive is kaput.

Will be booting into Hardy soon to see if i can at least salvage my class notes and a few other files I'd rather...