HD explosion - the reinstallation hell

Hoo-fucking-ray, all I can say about this incident. Just a less than a month ago, I went thru the pain of re-installing both my OSs, Ubuntu (upgraded it to Feisty Fawn from scratch) and Windows (from XP to Vista). Now, the HD that hosts both of those OSs chose to stop working!

It was my oldest drive, which I mainly used for OSs simply because earlier Ubuntus and XP didn't know their way into installing themselves onto SATA disk (I got two of them, newer and bigger than the IDE disk) without feeding them special drivers prior the installation. I was simply lazy and went the most convenient way. The re-installation was then a simply "habit" of just doing the same I did before.

Now, one and a half days later, things are getting running again. The tricky part was finding the space required for not just one, but two OSs in the previously full SATA disks. And I also had to find and install those drivers for XP so it could install. Then I could backup any data I could from those disks, defrag those, use Partition Magic to cut those two Linux partitions some space and then install Ubuntu as well.

Well, most of the programs are still missing, but OSs are up and running. And no, I didn't re-install Vista, I backed down to XP. My mere 2800+ single-core CPU and 1G of memory wasn't simply enought for smooth use... Basic system ate 700M of memory, even after I shut down about bazillion services, turned off most of the candy and so on. Pathetic.

Civilization 4: Beyond the Sword

Oh dear, Sid Meier has done it again! The original Civ4 was a total success, which revamped the whole system to a totally new level. The Warlords expansion to Civ4 was a failure in my eyes, but the Beyond the Sword expansion adds worthy content. Corporations, colonies, new civilizations and leaders, new techs etcetc, check the massive list here. The most addictive game is a tad more addictive now.

Thanks Sid, once again you made me lose my good night's sleep :)

First post

This is the first post to my new blog, which I chose to call 'The Tuminoid Affairs'. It doesn't mean anything special, I just suck at making up titles :)

So bear with me, I will be rambling here now and then, don't expect anything and you will not be disappointed either.