Tera firma

[greatbear]

The folks at newegg.com must like me (hell, I've made them quite rich lately). Even though I pick the standard three day shipping, the stuff usually comes in a day or two. This time was a pair of 750 gig Seagate SATA drives and a pair of WD Raptor X 10,000rpm 150 giggers. The Seagates are headed for the home theater PC and the 500 gig drive already there. The HTPC now has a big fat two terabytes of available disk space. It's a Tivo on steroids now. Hey, all that HDTV programming eats up drive space. It will also be it's own media server/jukebox as well. With all the DVDs being released with annoying ads and such that cannot normally be bypassed, they will instead be ripped and contained on the drives. With the ripping also comes a relinquishing of remote control restrictions shoved on me by the studios. Woot.

The Raptor X drives will be going into The PC That Never Was. Late last year I began collecting parts to build a replacment for my troublesome studio PC. Once I had enough stuff for the thing to make it bootable I discovered that it will only run for anywhere from a few minutes to a couple hours before locking up. With springtime in full swing and projects having to be tended to, I put it on the side. Later, when Mom found out about her terminal cancer, I took some time to troubleshoot it and determined the mobo was bad. I didnt work on it, rather I spent all my available time taking care of Mom. Now, in order to keep my mind from imploding I am updating the thing with a new mobo, Athlon X2 4600 AM2 proc, two gigs of DDR800 RAM, with everything else from the 'old' system staying. The box ended up sitting around in a non-functional state so long that it technically became obsolete. The new pieces will give me a decent upgrade path in the future, and what remains of the functional removed parts will become part of an upgrade to the shared 'family' PC. All this boxen flogging is being done to have some decent working machines. Right now the only good PCs are the HTPC and the 7 year old server. Everything else is screwed up in some way.

After all these 'upstairs' PCs get built, fixed and bought, then a new server gets put together. The old one has been almost too faithful though.

I'm such a geek.

Comments

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

Yes you are such a geek.

Can you tell me why FireFox sometimes dumps for no apparent reason and for a while it never used to do this.

I run WinXP with SP2 on a 2G Celeron box with a Foxconn mATX board with 400Mhz FSB and 740M of 266 DDR RAM.

Any suggestions? :-)

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

How many extensions do you have? Some of them might need to be disabled or updated if you have recently updated FF. You might want to disable them all and try, then re-enable them a few at a time if disabling them fixed the problem.

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'll give that a shot. I don't think I've done anything different to make them change but who knows?