The Hizzle of T-Fizzle

Last weekend my computer was acting a little flaky…kept crashing.  The crashes got more and more frequent.  On Sunday I went downstairs after using the computer.  A few hours later, I came upstairs and it was turned off.  After switching it on, it would just shut back down after a few seconds.  Maybe the motherboard went…maybe the power supply.  Who wants to mess with that stuff anymore?

I decided it’s time to get back into multiprocessors.  I have a 2×800MHz box that I got from work awhile back.  Already has linux on it.  I don’t really want to blow it away because I need some of the stuff on it.  But I don’t want to put my Windows drive in completely different hardware and risk losing all my data if I have to format.

The obvious solution seems to be to put my Windows drive in the linux box and start using linux at home.  These days I use mostly open source stuff anyway.  Linux is getting easier, and I’m getting better at it.
It took me 4 hours of head-pounding before I found this wonderful step-by-step on how to get my Wifi card working!  I kept finding various leads, and as usual one bit or another just doesn’t quite work right.  I think at some point I crossed this tutorial but decided to pass over it before finally coming back to it in a last-ditch effort to make it work.

Fortunately getting access to my NTFS drive was much easier.

Sorry, linux.  I’ve got a BS in Computer Science and a lot of experience and it *still* took me 4 hours to do something that should take 5 minutes.  Still not ready for prime time.  Maybe next year?

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