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Jun. 27th, 2007 07:43 pmYou know, I really ought to know that when a computer randomly repeatedly starts crashing and you trust the user when they say they haven't done anything, there's probably something physically wrong with it.
So yeah, the fan on my power supply went out. Fabulous timing, given that I've been planning on getting a new computer once I get up to Hamilton.
After spending most of the afternoon running around College Station wondering where I could buy a power supply, I discovered that I can't just use any power supply, because I have a Dell and they don't use just any off the shelf parts, no sir, they only use the highest quality parts selected especially for vendor lock-in!
...Thankfully, my parents had a couple of old computers lying around, and I had hard drives that I could just plop in. The newer of the computers is just a P3 with like 256 MB RAM, but hey, it runs Ubuntu well enough for me. So I spent Sunday afternoon hanging around with my parents, doing laundry, and popping up and down to get the computer set up.
So yeah, the fan on my power supply went out. Fabulous timing, given that I've been planning on getting a new computer once I get up to Hamilton.
After spending most of the afternoon running around College Station wondering where I could buy a power supply, I discovered that I can't just use any power supply, because I have a Dell and they don't use just any off the shelf parts, no sir, they only use the highest quality parts selected especially for vendor lock-in!
...Thankfully, my parents had a couple of old computers lying around, and I had hard drives that I could just plop in. The newer of the computers is just a P3 with like 256 MB RAM, but hey, it runs Ubuntu well enough for me. So I spent Sunday afternoon hanging around with my parents, doing laundry, and popping up and down to get the computer set up.
