And it's amazing what you'll find, sifting through a terabyte of stuff collected over seven years. Look, it's the Apollo Launch version of Fly Me To The Moon from Evangelion! I thought I'd lost that in the great File Corruption Scandal of '02.

Yes, an eight-minute dance mix of Fly Me To The Moon. Well, I like it, anyway. Kiss me please!

You are all I long for,
All I worsip and adore.

Heh.

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Gotta be the heat. 36C here in Sydney today. Don't think it liked that much.

Fortunately, it's mirrored. Um, was mirrored. Sigh.

It's not dead, mind you; two of the partitions - /usr and, uh, /pixy - have been failed out on one side of the mirror. The other partitions - /, /home, /var and so on - seem happy enough. It may be just a bad sector or two. In fact, I suspect that the same thing happened to the other drives, and once I finish backing everything up I'll be able to confirm that.

Except for the new Maxtor drive, which simply would not format, and has been sent back under warranty.

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Let's see what's in the parts bin... A D-Link 530TX, and a 3Com 905C. Well, one of those should work. Init 0...

Update: Pixy's tip of the day: If your Linux box doesn't want to recognise a new network card, try yanking out the old one first. Then, after booting with no network cards at all, shut down and put both cards in together.

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Yay! Internet access everywhere! Pity I wiped the router settings and NAT doesn't work anymore!

But that's easy to fix.

Update: Err, no it's not.

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It's good.

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Which means that right now I only have internet access from this one PC. The pain! The pain!

I've re-routed my pixymisa.net emails to the server at work, but I may have lost a few somewhere. So if you emailed me in the last few days and haven't heard back, it's not that I'm cross with you, it's just that your message got eaten by mice.

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I installed the helpful D-Link DSL-300 Configuration Utility to see what was going on. When asked to detect my modem, the helpful D-Link DSL-300 Configuration Utility helpfully said:

What modem?

I don't know if the D-Link DSL-302G is really any better, except for two points:

1. It does have a factory reset feature.
2. I haven't screwed it up yet.

Yay.

Now I just have to get it to talk to my router. Router: What modem?

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Anyway, it appears that Canon have come to the rescue with not one, not two, but three shiny new models. Of course, the one I want* doesn't seem to be available anywhere...

But the really amusing thing is that the models sold in America can't print on CDs - apparently due to a patent dispute. Ha ha!

* The most expensive one.

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So ping and traceroute work, ssh mostly works, but http, ftp, smtp, pop, nntp and BitTorrent - in other words, all the good stuff - don't.

When I get home, if it's not fixed, I'll try fiddling with the MTU and see where that gets me. Probably the yacht will sink.

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Well, with that sorted, there are only little unimportant details left to decide, like what processor I should get. (Mac fans note: I'd love to buy a Dual G5, but it's just not on the cards this year.)

So, let me know what you think. AMD? Intel? Zilog?

Update: Oh, yeah. The machine will be running Windows XP, and will be used for web browsing and email... And graphics editing and web design. And video editing. (Video encoding is painfully slow on my current system.) And music editing (Sonic Foundry's Acid). The occasional bit of programming. (Most of my programming is done on Linux). Word processing. Watching videos. And games, of course.

In fact, mostly games. I already have a GeForce 4 4600 Ultra, so I'm waiting out the current confusion in the video card market. Wake me when the GeForce 6 is out. (Or the FX2 or the GX or whatever it turns out to be.)

I'm also thinking of upgrading my Linux box. That will almost certainly be an Athlon.

The reason I'm asking is that the last four or five systems I've bought have all been AMD - right back to the K6-2. I have a P3 box at work, and it's not particularly impressive. So I've never spent much time on a P4, and I don't know how they stack up.

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