The fan plate is of the wrong type for the board. This confuses and frightens me. I will either solve this with additional mana or have faith in AMD’s ability to build a decent heatsink and fan. The board is built for a cpu plate with four screw holes in each corner. The third party [...]

Intelligence Didn’t Back Bush Iraq Claims, Senate Reports Say
Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) — Bush administration claims (Not some liberal news media, but the actual adminstration itself) justifying the war against Iraq were based on fragmented, conflicting, and unreliable intelligence, according to two reports released today by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Administration statements that Saddam Hussein was [...]

My company trip was cut short when I had to fly back to southern California; My dad got the heart transplant he needed and the operation was fast and went smoothly. His readouts look great, and it looks like everything went great. I’m heading back tomorrow when he will actually be awake. Our family couldn’t [...]

As I’ve been trying to rebuild a new system, I keep getting lockups. I dont know what it could be and I can’t exactly switch out much hardware to test. I’m making a backup of the backup today, and I’ll just hope money falls out of the sky, which is a topic unto itself; It’d [...]

It looks like the primary buffer panel (boot and main drive), have had some bad blocks, and I tried to repair them, only to mess up that which is required to boot. I think I may take some hardware into work and beg IT for assistance. My only hope is that they’ll be able to [...]