Despite the dwindling amount of content posted here over the last week, I’d like to assure all (both) my readers that I am not, in fact dead. I’ve just had a computer melt down.
The trouble started Monday with a conflict between Firefox 3.5 and some of my older add-ons, but it took me a few days to figure out what the root of the problem was, as the initial symptoms of the problem was all my system memory being drained until my computer froze.
It might seem like Firefox would be the first place I would look, but, thanks to my raging internet addiction, there were four or ten suspect applications (whose names shall not be mentioned here for fear of RIAA scruntiney) running during each manifestation of the problem. It took three days of patient rebooting and experimentation before I isolated the problem.
Sadly, the treatment was final straw. By the time I had downloaded and run every free english-language antivirus suite known to Google, re-installed two dozen of the applications I always leave running in the background, freed hundreds of gigs of space on the hard drive, and defragged the bejesus out of her, Ol Bessy (formerly Mentalos) just didn’t have any life left in her.
Turns out, one of my sticks of RAM blew. Subsequently, I am writing this hunched over a netbook like an inmate protecting his desert. With any luck, I’ll find a suitable substitute for my old desktop before Scoliosis sets in. Until then, posts my be sparse. TRY to deal with your despair in a healthy manner.
I’ll be back soon!
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Brad
