canutethegreat

I haven't posted anything for quite a while.. but the quarter from hell is finally over today! I just hope I passed all my classes. I guess I'll find out next week when grades are posted!

I am currently working on a programming project that I started several months ago (before this quarter) but didn't have time to finish it. With some of the skills...
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So I'm still working (in between everything else) on that laptop from the auto collision place and so far I'm not finding any malware or anything that seems obvious, but the cpu bounces between 80-100% when (otherwise) idle. Taskmanager isn't really showing what process is consuming the cpu time so I'm gonna locate and download process explorer (if it's still around) and try that. I'm...
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Last year my wife's truck got hit while in a parking lot and the other driver/vehicle fled (unoccupied hit and run). At the time our insurance deductible was really high and we already had a claim out for some damage to the other side (someone keyed the side of the truck and then kicked in the quarter panel). We did file a claim right away...
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So that hard drive I was trying to recover data from finally bit the dust. I only got 13GB of data off of it before it died and unfortunately all of it is useless. I might try sticking it in the freezer overnight and trying it again tomorrow but chances are it's toast.

So I found out today that two out of the four of...
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I'm trying to recover data from a hard drive for a customer that is not working. It appears that the drive overheated. The "genius" then decided to remove the sticker on the top that quite clearly says not to open because there are no user serviceable parts inside.. and took the cover off. sure enough, just like the sticker says, there are no user serviceable...
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I had a weird dream last night: I built a rocket that was capable of entering Earth's orbit and on-board the rocket I had included the guts from an old computer which was running Gentoo Linux. Apparently I wanted the computer on-board so I could do more advanced types of communication between the rocket in orbit and me on the ground. Well the rocket successfully...
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I finally finished my history paper that's due tomorrow. I took forever to get going on it and now that it's done I think it's a pile of crap.. but then I don't ever like any of the papers I write.. so who knows?

In my CS class I'm a little worried about how bad of a grade I'm going to get on the last...
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Today my wife and I went to our monthly air-cooled VW meeting. The turnout wasn't very good this month, but I think that has to do with the weather getting crappy (it was raining and a little chilly). Those of us that did show up had a good time socializing.

I got the desktop computer back up and running this week after being down for...
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It's been a really crazy week. For the first time in my college career I wasn't able to complete a homework assignment (at all). There was just too many things to accomplish this week and that particular class was supposed to be taught by a professor I've had before (and liked) but she got a job somewhere else and they hired this Chinese girl that...
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