Argh! Data corXItFbhslsf BLEEP BLEEP! Segmentation Fault

Noooooooo! Random files on my machine are corrupt My XMMS playlist had gone wonky causing XMMS to lock up, the manpage for ‘objcopy’ is no more and god knows what else has been chewed to pieces. The machine still boots and works properly, I’m just a tad concerned something important has been munched. My UPS has proved to be useful, saving my machine from three powercuts and two brown-outs. The only problem is when the UPS data gets garbled while writing CDs and my PC shuts itself down part way through burning…

My PC is beginning to fall apart… it’ll randomly declare that DMA mode on the external IDE controller doesn’t work, that’s assuming it wants to power on in the first place! The clock wanders something chronic, and whatever you do, don’t go into the external IDE controller’s BIOS since all it does is lock the machine up.

All it’s got to do is hold together until I get a paying job so I can afford a new one. A nice, small SFF machine that’d be ideal for carting around the country would do. Fast and small is the way to go, along with silent.

Tags: backup, Broken, Hardware, Linux