Month: June 2004

Darkness

Definitely feel like shit. This seems to be a pretty typical thing as most of you actually reading this (if there actually is anyone, somehow I do doubt that) already know. I’ll restate that same point though. I feel like shit. It’s kinda hard when you come to realizations that you just assumed you thought were true and then you find out one day that they aren’t. I guess it just makes you wonder what else you might be assuming and will only end up finding out is one big horrible lie.

It’s lonely being home. I like my alone time to a certain extent. At some point however it just starts to eat away at you and you begin to wonder if it’s not really a choice and it’s just because you don’t actually have any friends. Bingo, I think I’ve hit the nail on the head…I guess I win a cookie.

Do I miss my highschool friends? Barely. After a few years and lots of thought to reflect on my high school experience I’ve come to the realization that they were all pretty shitty human beings. I’ll give most of them the benefit of the doubt and just say that they were immature, but a choice few are just horrible people and will in all likelihood stay horrible people. Whatever, I am just going to go to bed and stop thinking.

g’night.

[tag]Thoughts[/tag]
[tag]Personal[/tag]

Aventure Mail … Free 2GB of storage

Well this is quite cool. This is another part of the long reaching struggle between internet email companies to be the one offering the biggest email storage service for free. Ever since Google annouced Gmail this has been the general trend. Spymac began offering a free 1GB plan a month or two ago and Yahoo recently annouced they would be upgrading there users. Aventuremail.com will be offering a free 2GB account, but they are currenty having issues with the massive increase in traffic since this was annouced yesterday afternoon. Expect service speeds and availability to improve drastically in the next few days as they upgrade there hardware for the new influx of people.

Note: I already registered for XxDesmus_MODxX and h4x0r =)

[Edit]: It’s important to note that I discovered this little gem because of a post over at Neowin by JJ6829. Huge thanks go out to him for this great find.

[tag]Tech News[/tag]
[tag]Internet Related[/tag]

Well crap

So the reinstall went fine. I had XP up and running beautifully again and then I had the oh so brilliant idea of install Fedora Core 2 on the rest of my partition…sounds easy enough right? Um yeah, both my 40gb (main OS) partition and my storage (160gb) partition are corrupted now AND Fedora didn’t even f-ing install right. So, well shit. I am going to trying and salvage the main OS partition using the fixmbr application on the Win XP cd, but last time it didn’t work for me. If that doesn’t work it looks like i am going to format both partitions and use a NTFS recovery application to save whatever i can from both partition. That would be a huge pain in the ass though because it’s not 100% guaranteed that I will be able to save all of my data. But if that’s what I gotta do then that’s what I gotta do. So well shit. lol

[tag]Tech News[/tag]
[tag]Hardware[/tag]

Well crap part 2

Well I managed to save my XP installation, thank the good god, lol. I was really not too excited over the idea of reinstalling everything, again.

Now the problem remains that my entire “storage” hard drive containing all my songs, movies, videos, software, mail, documents, and pictures backups….is still messed up. *doh* I am going to format that partition using a “quick format” instead of the full format and then hopefully use a NTFS recovery program to save what I can. I did this over Christmas break with pretty good success. Basically the only thing I lost then was a few songs which got corrupted in the recovery process.

Minor problem. The corrupted hard drive in question has about 120GB of data on it (see above contents). My hard drive that Windows XP is running off of is a tiny little 40GB. lol. So I am going to…

1. Try to recover files in shifts and then keep burning things to cd’s (A LOT OF CD’s… think 700MB cd, 1,000 MB in 1GB, therefor 120GB = 120,000 MB, therefore 172 cd’s roughly. Um no. lol.

2. Buy one of the 12x DVD-R/RW burners I’ve been looking at for a while now and burn everything to DVD-R’s…2.6GB DVD-R, 120GB, therefore 47 DVD-R’s roughly…and consider

I. the DVD-R/RW burner is going to be about $150

II. the 50 pack of DVD-R will be about another $100…this might not be an option.

3. Buy a new and much bigger hard drive to replace the 40GB, think around 120GB up to 200GB. This would be the ideal solution because then I can simply recover everything from the corrupted storage hard drive over onto this new one, fix the corrupted hard drive and then just move everything back. This would also entail ghosting/imaging my current installation of Windows XP over onto this new hard drive, which is really not a problem. *Ding Ding Ding* I think we have a winner. lol =)

[tag]Tech News[/tag]
[tag]Hardware[/tag]