Well, my craptop’s hard drive is completely dead as of this morning. Can’t say I’m surprised, really. The funny thing is, Firefox seems to run much faster off the live disk than it did before. Could be that hard drive was slowing down my system more than I thought. (Could also be Firefox addons, but the whole UI seems snappier.)
EDIT: Er — perhaps not. Turns out fsck is pretty nifty. Who knew?
Yay for new lease on drive life. (Now taking bets on lifespan.)
Well.
My laptop’s hard drive has been threatening to fail for a while, and I think it’s finally gotten there. Upon unlocking the screen, the machine froze for about three minutes, and then everything GNOME pretty much went blank. It’ll boot about as far as the part where it’s supposed to mount stuff prior to loading the login, and then it goes to a lovely shell. So, y’know, the drive’s not completely shot, because it loads Grub and stuff pretty well. I’m running fsck now. Expect more updates when I figure out what the hell I’m doing.
Current music: You Belong With Me by Taylor Swift, courtesy of Kix 104.