Stupid computers...

OK, nevermind I don't really mean it.

A little background. I know computers, I know how to run them and how to keep them running correctly. My laptop that my company gave me for work has been the greatest little piece of machinery. I have had it for a year and a half now and it has worked flawlessly, it takes everything I dish at it. Software development is not the nicest thing to do to a computer, I've done some pretty nasty things to the system. When the code is not written correctly the system crashes, sometimes very harshly. This little laptop has endured MANY MANY system crashes that would beat down on even the most reliable systems (which mine is because I run it ;-)) and it comes tight back at full power. Until now, It has finally failed on me, and it is in the hardware so I cannot fix it. I spend a good portion of yesterday attempting to get it back up and running so that I would not fall any farther behind at work (I missed about half the day Friday due to this.) But now I am at work with a computer that works but I cannot do my work on it because it crashes so badly. So I am going to shut down now and make another effort to get back going.

On another note, Dell Tech support may be the best in the world (well India anyway) but it really needs another place to call in so that when I, a geek, already knows what is wrong I can just tell them and have them ship me the warranty part. Instead I have to talk on the phone to some dude in India with OK English for an hour and a half as he reads scripted support, all to come to the same conclusion that I had already figured out.

Hopefully I will be back working soon.