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Tech: Anchovies, or "Don't you worry about Planet Express, let me worry about _blank_!"
Sat, 23 Jul 2005

When a machine goes and gives up the ghost, I sometimes refer to it as 'anchoving' - because you really wish you could just make it all go away. I originally thought about entitling this post "Stomp your hands and clap your feat", but in the end I decided no Quiet Riot reference is a good thing. Well, let me get to it and begin with the age old... the sea was angry my friends..

You may recall that two or three weeks ago I had my gateway box begin to melt down -- a pretty important box with a lot of duties, but one that had done its job very well over a long period of time and really did need a pit-stop. Still, it set me back a few bucks and cost me a couple weeks time putting a new machine together and redoing my LAN and setting things up etc etc, but in the end I've been very happy with the results.

Naturally, this meant that yesterday, my main development box had to go and melt down as well. Furthermore, its also my laptop - so it really hurts. I use this box as both my general PC and for handheld and Windows development, as well as the gateway to my other dev boxes for Linux and Mac work. Since I do so much development and support and such, I'm on this thing all the time, and thats why its important its a laptop -- so I can still see my wife instead of living in solitary confinement in my little office full of steaming hot machines..

So time for me to be a little more quiet and less responsive again, as I set up my Linux box to also be a Windows and handheld dev box (full reinstall to a new hard disk, etc etc) and migrate all the goods from my laptop hard disk while the laptop is itself in the shop. I just hope they can fix it up, as I'd hate to go laptop-less for any length of time.. and I've no intention in dropping a couple K into hardware right now :(

I did pick up a little mobile drive enclosure though, to house my laptop drive. It hoists a USB2 port for connectivity and cost $22CDN so not bad. I'd like one of those 802.11 wireless drive enclosures though I'm really hoping not to need this more than once -- to copy data to the desktop as backup and get up to speed for when the laptop comes back... hopefully :) Course, I've not been having good luck of late have I..

Apex will be happy.. this is also my Half-Life 2 machine ;)

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