broken 'puter
good luck recoverin' !!!
on the good side: time for a new, faster and bigger drive? 
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I was thinking more along the lines of a new, faster and bigger computer. I'm not sure if fixing the old one is worth it, failure of other components is to be expected soon on a 3 1/2 year old laptop. Actually the dvdrw has been bad for a while already, it reads but doesn't write.
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maybe you could give the ubuntu dells a try? there hardware is quite decent (own a dell myself, and many dell laptop users @ work)...
though since I remember you have quite special customization desires on O's, it probably wouldn't do 
as far as dvd-rw drives go: my experience is they always deteriorate after some years of use... The laser lenses seem to wear out... What I did was buying an usb enclosure and putting a normal (and thus way cheaper then small form factor drives for laptops) dvd drive in... But I guess that doesn't matter since a new system will no doubt come with one installed...
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After looking at all the options (and their prices), I decided to just order a new harddisk. "Elk nadeel hep se voordeel": with this much faster disk the whole system now flies. I've never seen software be installed that fast .
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Bad news again: now my internet connection tried to downgrade to smoke signals. I guess it will again take a while before I will be able to come to babylonia again 
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it's probably because the new HD makes you able to download too fast 
out of curiosity: what type of connection are you on? And what's wrong with it ?
any case: good luck repairing once more....
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I'm on 4M ADSL. And back on it, as you can see. The router tried to increase bandwidth by using smoke signals as an extra line 
. Of course when only one computer is in use, I don't need a router between that and the modem - d'oh!
I'm going to test the fire alarm now, because it didn't go off when it should have: there's an awful smell of burned plastic here even after the windows have been open for hours.
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mm, i'm going to see if my dsl supports smokesignals as well, having only 2 mbit dsl (thanks to non existing investments in the copper in the ground I can't get any higher) i can use all extra bandwidth
ps: you probably already know this, but you can also just use one of your computers (or an old one lying around doing nothing) as an internet sharing router.....
pps: seems like firealarms tend to be not too reliable, I hasd a smoke detector which did the contrary: go off all the time without any cause at all (scared me to death the forst time it went off, I searched the whole house for fire ). That is, till I ripped the battery out after the third night in a row the damn thing woke me without due cause
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Natlia
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Hi all,
My computer is broken (disk crash), so I won't be able to come to Babylonia for a while. I hope to see you again soon!
- Natlia
Disks melt. Paper burns. Clay tablets get baked and saved for posterity.