So, I woke up this morning and wandered down to my office. Woke-up my computer (it's rarely turned off) and noticed a nice Windows taskbar notification bubble sitting there saying that half of the RAID 1 pair for my system drive was dead.

I guess I know what I'll be doing tonight. Thankfully, the Intel monitoring software lets me see the serial numbers for the drives so I know which one I will have to pull. I hope the drive is still under warranty. I think it should be. The drive was purchased only about a year and a half ago. And, thanks to the RAID 1 set up, I can continue to use my computer while I send the dead drive away.

Here's hoping the other drive doesn't go belly-up. I guess I better get an image of the drive while I can, too.

Apparently, the POSIX system clock will read 1234567890 at that time.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/13/unix_time_milestone/

The Windows and Mac OS X version of "Guitar Hero III" is coming on Dec. 10!

For the curious, the system specs required for either Windows or Mac are here.

This week is going to be near the top for "bad computer" weeks in my life. Aside from the recent data networking problems at the office, I've had to contend with my own computer problems.

I recently received a new Lenovo (almost said "IBM") ThinkPad T61 for work. I diligently spent time downloading updates, installing any other applications that I need, getting my personal files transferred over, and getting applications configured. Then, I ran into some weird problem with Explorer.exe and had to start from scratch. I was just about done with this first rebuild when, this morning, something got messed up again.

If I cannot get access to the Windows System Restore utility, I will be forced to do this all over AGAIN. Every time I have to do this, I'm guaranteed to waste at least 2 work days on it. I can't speed it up by doing some of this from home because our crappy DSL service at home is too slow to download hundreds of MBs of data over the course of a night.