UGGGHHH!!!

This has been the worst six weeks for home technology in my life! At Thanksgiving we came home one night and one of my notebooks was fried. I eventually got it back up, but the screen was shot. So, I put Linux on it and brought it to the office.

Score: -1 Notebook

Then, a few weeks ago my bedroom PC started dropping the IP address several times a minute. That was with it plugged in--not wireless! As you know, repairing the TCP/IP network takes about 15 seconds...so about 45 seconds of every minute of usage was hang-time while the machine repaired the TCP/IP connection. UGGGH!!!

Score: -1 Notebook - 1 Desktop

So, I brought the Linux notebook (see above) home to use in the bedroom while I waited for a new NIC card to arrive in the mail (thanks, Dad!). But, the day it arrived I put it in, went to the bedroom to try it out and the LCD Panel is fried. No power. I don't know if the Linux box just got it too hot or what. But it won't come on at all.

Score: -1 Notebook - 1 Desktop - 1 LCD Panel

Now, I'm sitting in the living room on my Tablet PC and the HD is making awful funny noises. It sounds like an eminent crash within the next days or weeks. I'm keeping my fingers crossed! I'm already down to three working PC's at home and two at the office. I don't think I ever want to get lower than that!

Maybe I'll just use this opportunity to buy a few new Macs! :-)