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07/19/2003: skip this if computer rants bore you...
I'm having a craptastic evening, thanks to my frelling computer. It started innocently enough, this afternoon I ran one of the regular auto-updates my linux distribution provides, so that security fixes (and other bug fixes too) will be installed. I shutdown my computer everything seemed well, I went to my comic store, read some good comics (that is all the pre-craptastic part, when I fully expected the day to turn out really well), and then about three hours ago I wanted to turn on my computer (to write an entry about the comics I read). It hung during the boot process, it wouldn't start usb hotplugging. I had no idea what to do, then I figured out how to start a bare-bones rescue system, and tried to find some configuration file that would allow me to turn off the usb hotplugging script in the boot sequence. Previously I only changed the boot settings in the administration GUI. I finally settled for removing the hotplugging script from the respective init.d folders. Afterwards I could at least boot my computer again, though I also had to change to booting without trying to start X-Windows, because it didn't find the driver for my graphics card anymore. I guess it is because the security updates included a kernel update and my boot procedure isn't entirely regular, and I didn't adjust things manually. It might be something else. Right now the problem isn't fixed, I merely succeeded in loading my graphics card driver manually. I decided that I really need to backup my system (my last backup is from May) before I attempt to fix this in case something goes really wrong, as it inevitably does.
I hope to return to the regularly scheduled Batverse obsession soon, however if you don't see any posts about Nightwing #83, Gotham Knights #43, or the Haunted Knight TPB in the near future, I most likely managed to break my computer further during my attempts to fix things...
You know, before I tried to boot my computer I was only annoyed about comic editing that leads to things like that displaying naked, mutilated corpses hanging from the ceiling is okay without a mature readers label as long as the female breasts though naked are yet drawn without nipples (it took me a moment to figure out why one of the corpses looked so weird), and the crotch area is without pubic hair (in case you wonder which comic I mean, look at Arrowsmith #1, page 20, by Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco). That however, has moved way down on my annoyances list.
