Bad news: One of the 512mb sticks is toast. Good news: I had more memory in there than I thought! Two more 512mb sticks, and a baby 128mb stick. Running a final memory check on the remaining RAM, and if it all turns out well I’ll attempt to install Ubuntu on [...]

Rule number 1 of computing: Always make a backup. Rule number 2: See rule number 1.
As we have been putting off setting up the file server, of course my husband’s hard drive would pick this weekend to crash. Horribly. Click of death, never to be seen again. Of course, since I [...]