I am NOT AMUSED by my computer at home.
It was working fine, I did a day or two of work on it, and then one night I hooked up the second hard drive so I could re-form my RAID array.
On power up, I get this message that the page file is too small or otherwise not sufficient to its task. That's annoying. Rebuilding the RAID should not have affected my boot disk... especially not the settings on it.
So I do a Windows repair. Reboot. Argh! The original BSOD I got at the beginning of this saga!
Somebody out there is sucking all of the life out of my computer, and I think the sucking is coming from the NorthWest.
Anywho, I've come to the conclusion that my RAID controller and Windows hate each other, and that having my RAID as the boot controller is not a good idea. With any luck, I'll remember to pick up a hard drive from Fry's on the way home today so I can create a nice, new, non-RAID boot disk.
Then I can keep my RAID pair as the data disk. That's all that really needs to be protected, anyway.
While RAID can protect against hardware failures, it aint shit against software damage... or incompatibilities with the RAID card, or whatever.
I just hope I didn't lose those last two days of work. Two days translates into nearly a week, after all.
Went to see my head doctor Monday. Insurance isn't helping with that cost, since he is out of network. With a deductable of $200 for his classification and an annual cost to me of about $160 there is no win with the visits. But the meds cost me $15 instead of $89! That's good! And when I run the new scrip through the mailorder meds company, that will be $15 for three months, not just one! Whee! Savings!
Finally, I need to upgrade my ISP service, mostly for this blog and the long delays involved in viewing it. But that would kick me from a cheap $15/month or so service to a far less cheap $55/month version... halfway to a dedicated server, even. About $600 a year! Ouch!
If I could make this site actually PAY something, it would be worth it. But it's mostly just a way to communicate with family, friends, and the readers of my books. So I guess, since it is essentially a business site for Simreal, it's still a tax writeoff... but I would rather buy books and tools than pay for services.
Still....
So I cancelled my stamps.com, saving about $10/month. Since I stopped selling stuff off the site, I really don't use stamps ever. All my bills get paid electronically. And I cancelled my eFax service, since I don't use that either. Another about $12/month. So the net increase for the new ISP level is, umm, about $18/month give or take a few dollars. Not _too_ bad.
Until then, get people to buy my books! And give me easy, money-making ideas! Yeah!
Posted by Edwin at March 10, 2004 08:09 AM