my george clooney.
That is an awesome sounding euphemism.
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ok so I've been trying to get Ubuntu installed on this old computer I have to turn it into a server, so I tried installing Xubuntu (had a cool name with a picture of a mouse on it) and after it was done installing and restarted, the computer decided to kill itself. It just keeps beeping, no picture to monitor or anything. The hard drive is also making "clicking" noises which is never a good sign.
Anyway, so I opened up Google to see if it could help, and I came across this piece of gold: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/UnBooks:Beep
Anyway, so I opened up Google to see if it could help, and I came across this piece of gold: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/UnBooks:Beep
red chamber dream
watching warbird in action is sort of like reading garfield minus garfield
especially when you remove everyone else:
[03:20:16] <llxwarbirdxll> everyone knows that the best country in the world is
[03:20:19] <llxwarbirdxll> BRITTANIA
[03:20:22] <llxwarbirdxll> ALL HAIL BRITTANIA
[03:20:42] <llxwarbirdxll> PEOPLE WERE NOT MADE EQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL
[03:20:50] <llxwarbirdxll> ALL HAIL BRITANNIA
[03:21:01] <llxwarbirdxll> THERE IS NO NIPPON
especially when you remove everyone else:
[03:20:16] <llxwarbirdxll> everyone knows that the best country in the world is
[03:20:19] <llxwarbirdxll> BRITTANIA
[03:20:22] <llxwarbirdxll> ALL HAIL BRITTANIA
[03:20:42] <llxwarbirdxll> PEOPLE WERE NOT MADE EQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL
[03:20:50] <llxwarbirdxll> ALL HAIL BRITANNIA
[03:21:01] <llxwarbirdxll> THERE IS NO NIPPON
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Ok I can confirm that the hard drive is fine, and it's not the source of the problem. WHICH MEANS something ELSE is being stupid, and I have no idea what in the world it could possibly be. I guess the next step would be to remove the motherboard battery and wait like 10 minutes for the BIOS to reset itself, and MAYBE it will do something. I forget if you have to move any jumpers around when reseting the BIOS but I guess I'll find out.
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I plugged in a hard drive that I know works fine, and when I plugged it in it did the little clicking thing 3 times (just like the other one) and then the computer started beeping. I really don't get what would suddenly cause this. I mean, the computer hadn't been used for almost a year now, but RIGHT after getting Xubuntu installed seems to be a little more then just a coincidence.
What's funny is I HAD Ubuntu installed earlier today, but every time I would try to boot it it would say something about not being able to load a drive map (along those lines) so I uninstalled it and tried installing Xubuntu.
What's funny is I HAD Ubuntu installed earlier today, but every time I would try to boot it it would say something about not being able to load a drive map (along those lines) so I uninstalled it and tried installing Xubuntu.
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Um, well teh computer has an old AMD (Athlon I think its called?) 1.5GHz CPU, and 480Mb of RAM. looking on the side is said DDR 266 which is reaaally old <.<
OH and while I was looking at the RAM sticks, I decided to switch them jsut to see if it would make a difference. After switching them, I turned on the computer and was greeted by a black screen with a white flashing under-score thingy "_" (its 4:30am can't think of the right name). Anyway, that's a good sign I though, so I turn the computer off then on, and it loads up the BIOS screen. "Yay!" I think, but it sadly never got past the part when it first brings up the BIOS thing (just before it tells you how much RAM is installed). At least now I know what's causing it for sure, so I'm gonna try removing one stick and see what happens.
OH and while I was looking at the RAM sticks, I decided to switch them jsut to see if it would make a difference. After switching them, I turned on the computer and was greeted by a black screen with a white flashing under-score thingy "_" (its 4:30am can't think of the right name). Anyway, that's a good sign I though, so I turn the computer off then on, and it loads up the BIOS screen. "Yay!" I think, but it sadly never got past the part when it first brings up the BIOS thing (just before it tells you how much RAM is installed). At least now I know what's causing it for sure, so I'm gonna try removing one stick and see what happens.
The past 1 or 2 days - it's rained so I couldn't mow my lawn, before that it was too hot. Or I couldn't mow it too early in the morning because the grass was too wet. So, I get to today since it wasn't too unbearably hot. Turns out, by the time I try to get to sleep I've been too active to come down and relax... Or maybe drinking too much iced/sweet tea is to blame. Anyway... When I tried to sleep I'd eventually have these leg cramps... Like the small spot in my right calf where my muscle would contract so hard (without me even trying), making me yell out in anguish. So, I haven't had even an hours worth of straight sleep. And here within the last 30 minutes when I was trying to fall asleep - I've had this pattern running through my head... I can only blame that on playing a game of Columns earlier - actually trying to get myself to relax... Apparently that had the opposite effect, probably because I got up to the (was it the) 23rd or 49th level(?) Anyway. My mind is racing, I have to be at work in another 45 or 50 minutes and work till 7 in the morning. 
I think I'd full the rest of the void/empty space here in this area of posting with curses and make it all nice and symmetrical. If you don't hear from me again you'll know that I've probably been institutionalized or some shit. Yeah that's how I feel right now.