Posts Tagged ‘Windows XP’

Grrr. Hard Disk Failure

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Came home this afternoon, and my Windows Vista system was sitting on a screen everyone loves to see. No, not the BSOD, but rather the boot disk failure screen. Yippie.

After a few reboots, the system came back online for a while. Though I did notice an odd sound coming from the system. Upon further inspection, I was able to narrow it down to one of two hard disks. And about that time, the system crashed again. Grrr.

Disconnected the FUBAR disk, disabled the RAID in the BIOS, and now Windows has been reinstalled and is downloading the available updates. I reckon a 2x 500GB setup was a bit overkill for a system that did nothing more than sit and run Folding@Home. I do have to hand it to Microsoft, Windows Vista does feel like it installs much faster than XP. Granted, it’s been ages since I’ve done a full install of XP.

Vaporware 2007 Awards

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

I was just talking about vaporware yesterday, and today the 2007 Award “winners” were announced. The list includes Diablo III, EA’s Spore, and of course Duke Nukem Forever (at the #1 spot). Also listed is the 802.11N standard, Windows XP Service Pack 3, and Guns N’ Roses’ next album Chinese Democracy.

View the 2007 Vaporware Awards @ Wired.