A final post on what happened to my computer. There is some repetition of earlier posts, but I thought I may as well just write the whole story.
After the panic about the hard drive dying, I tried out a couple of other disks. At first they seemed to work, but the next day they started displaying the same symptoms as the old hdd (the one presumed to have broken). This gave me cause to believe that it wasn’t the hard disk that was the cause of the problem. At the same time as I realised this, I noticed that the DVD drive started to repeatedly make the noise it makes when it is first powered up. It seemed like the drive was being repeatedly power-cycled. I put an ear up to the hard disk in the machine; it also seemed to be whirring up and down — similarly power-cycle-esque.
Metadata display? In the playlist? Loaded in a background thread so it doesn’t kill the UI? Suits you sir!
Dirty hack? Knocked together in an hour or so you say? Indeed :D
Things are looking good though, check the SS!
The way I read weblogs — now in Bloglines rather than a feed reader — is to flick through them and open a ton of browser windows with the interesting stories in. Then I can read the interesting posts at my leisure over the day.
This, of course, relies on the browser not crashing. This morning I had around twenty posts open on my desktop, just waiting for my perusal. They were open in Firefox. Which then crashed, seemingly for no reason. All the windows lost, a moment of frustration that we all must know. Why doesn’t Firefox remember what windows and tabs are open? Then I could just restart the browser and back they would come.
New Google toy: search your desktop looks pretty interesting to me. It will search Outlook emails, Word documents and so on. A first salvo by Google to take on WinFX?
Comments on how well it works? I would try it, but I doubt it works on Linux…
Report from the field, 3:
Mostly pretty good news.
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