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Well, it was due, I s'pose. I can't really remember for sure when I put this system together. I think it was in 2010 or so. The three hard drives and other components in it (ZIP, floppy, DVD burners, vid card, etc.) were from an even older system that I built in 2008, I think. Anyway ericsbane05 is kaputski, zip, boom, bang, all over but the cryin'. It started out with a hard drive that's been acting up over the last year. It kept dropping sectors. It was just a data drive, though. My OS was on another of the three drives. I tried to save the data on the failing drive by rsyncing it to so newly made partitions on my second data drive. In the process, of this, that, and the other, I seem to have developed an issue with no boot at all. My main hard drive had done this to me once before. It was caused by a sloppy, weakened power supply/SATA connector. I had it rigged with duct tape, believe it or not. Worked fine for a couple years that way. Figures this would happen on the one month in the past year that I did not do any backups on the 1st of the month, as I usually do. I lost some data and emails and such; nothing that my life hinges on, I assure you. I'm using my office ericslaptop01 (thanks, Josh!) right now. I had ssh'd and syncd my /home and Mozilla profiles here on 1 October, so I lost a little over 30 days' worth of data all told. The real sad situation is that I can in no way afford to put together another system at this time. It may be a very long while, too. So, I'm limited to the ericslaptop01(fully loaded Slackware14-64/KDE), jenslaptop (Slackware14-32/Xfce), and ericsshop02 (Slackware14-64/Xfce). The shop system is an older dual core AMD system. It's probably the most capable thing in my inventory right now, but it has a bad PCIe socket, so onboard vid only. No gaming for me for a while. Guess I'll be catching up on my reading. And that's the way it is, folks. I probably won't be as active online because of all this. The little laptops are fine for checking the emails, job hunting, online bill pay, etc. However, I don't know that I'd want to sit in front of this little screen and play on the Internet for long periods. I'm out... ~Eric