Earlier in the week I had decided that the port replicator for my laptop had died. It would power on, start to boot the laptop, and then power off.

Today I decided to try and make it work again … I had already assumed it was a lost cause, so I figured I couldn’t break it any worse.

Now, however, it’s working.

It didn’t at first … exhibited the same behavior as before.

However, this time I tried to boot the laptop in the APR with the laptop lid open … lo and behold, it boots normally.

So I start plugging devices in … and they are all working. I plug the monitor in and close the lid, and the monitor springs to life.

I’m confused.

I think computers were placed on this world just to screw with my brain.

… for computers!

New drive arrived from Dell today … Airborne was supposed to get an “Adult Signature” before delivering it.

I guess the driver is an adult … as he must have been the one who signed for it. The drive was shoved between the storm and front door.

Oh well, good thing for Airborne I’m an honest person. I could have just as easily pocked the drive and claimed I didn’t receive it.

The drive installed easy enough, and passed diagnostics … but that’s when things got very interesting…
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What a day it was today …

Around 6:30 this morning I THOUGHT I heard the phone ringing … but it wasn’t ringing upstairs, so I figured it was on our 2nd line (which happens to be a Vonage Voice over IP line), so I knew it was probably a wrong number (only Steve knows the VoIP number anyway).

Well, woke up to get my coffee and noticed that we had a message on the answering machine … I listened to it and it was indeed Steve calling to tell me that he my system was totally inaccessable.

I hadn’t done anything to the Covad DSL service I figured something was wrong with the Dell server.

Went downstairs and didn’t see anything wrong with the server … but I did notice my Dell laptop was reporting that it couldn’t find a hard drive.
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