John Mort's Weblog

One of the hard drives in trian's PC is tapping. She has three hard drives in there, one has the OS, one has program installs, and one has data. I set it up this way so that it would run faster when I was playing games, but now that it's her computer it doesn't really run games anymore, and those games it does run won't benefit from this setup. So provided the tapping drive is not the data drive, I can just merge the other two onto the good drive. If it's the data drive then there will be a time of panic. Even though it's not a really a crisis right now, every time I hear it tap it stresses me out a little more.

Today my T23 which functions as a server had some disk corruption, not fun, but I fixed it. I've finally got the T20 working, which is nice. It's only a 750mhz machine with 750mb RAM, just powerful enough to web around with, and more than sufficient to remote desktop to a more powerful computer or ssh into my server with, and that's all I really need to survive watching HGTV with trian.

I also swapped around all the batteries I have for the TX thinkpads. I have two which are so dead the thinkpads don't even recognize it when it's plugged in. One holds a five minute charge, the other looks like it'll last awhile. It was completely empty when I plugged it in, and has slowly been charging up. I thought at first it'd probably only last 30-45 minutes, but it's taken so long charging up I suspect it might last 90-120 minutes! That would rock!

In any case, it's really nice having a functional laptop again, even if it's super weak.