Computer “issues”

So my desk­top at home took a hard crash this morn­ing. Just up and turned itself off while I was watch­ing “The Totally Rad Show.” Well, I was watch­ing the show, and defrag­ging, and down­load­ing and and and and and. So… guess I was push­ing it kind of hard. I think it over­heated and just cut out. I wasn’t mon­i­tor­ing CPU temp at the time so I can’t be sure. I began watch­ing it again when I turned it back on. It looks as if nor­mal run­ning temp is around 170°F cur­rently. Which accord­ing to my knowl­edge is a fine temperature.

Sadly the com­puter prob­lems and study­ing for school have left me strapped for time so I have had to delay the release of this week’s episode of Geekure. It’ll be out tomor­row or Sun­day most likely.

Also prob­a­bly tonight or tomor­row I’ll be installing the lat­est Ubuntu “Feisty Fawn” to get back into it. I had it on there for a while. Took it off when I took a job which required me to pro­gram in the Win­dows envi­ron­ment, which I no longer have. But with the lat­est release it seems like a good time to get back in there. This feel­ing is fur­thered even more by the real­iza­tion that Microsoft is work­ing hard for their “Evil Empire” merit badge with the thread of stop­ping sup­ply for Win­dows XP in 2008.

I left the com­puter hum­ming in the cor­ner as it hap­pily defragged my hard dri­ves. My C drive was hor­ri­bly frag­mented and in dire need of a thor­ough clean­ing. If Ubuntu proves to be able to han­dle my day to day uses I may go sole boot to Ubuntu and get rid of Win­dows all together, enter­ing into the house that Mark built.

We’ll see though.