Well, I got up this morning and found that my Window$ box had died. The power LED was on, but the rest of the machine was non-responsive. I think that the motherboard fried on the machine, as I’ve swapped out all the other suspect components, and found that they haven’t remedied the the problem (power supply, memory, CPU). So, I checked, and the motherboard (ASUS A7V8X) has a 3 year warranty (with almost a year left). I contacted ASUS tech support, and they said to get the board repaired/replaced, I needed to call the RMA department (different number). However, they are only open weekdays. So, I’ll have to wait and get the ball rolling on Monday. But, that’s alright; I still have three Linux boxes and a Mac to pick up the slack.
In other news, my site (and BJU Bloggers) will be moving to a new hosting solution in the next few days, but we’re not anticipating much, if any, down time. We’re hoping that move will increase the overall security of the sites that we’re hosting, as recently, we’ve had a few security breaches that have not settled well with us.
On the acacdemic front, I’ve managed (with the help of God) to bring up my grades in most of my classes to an acceptable level, without sacrificing too much of my non-existant social life