Normally I only talk about the positives of working online. That is because for the most part there are nothing but positives (besides the obvious issues of cabin fever etc). Last night I was working on my main rig just relaxing minding my own business. The machine was running like a champ. After all it is a quad core intel machine that is decked out from the floor up, but for some reason when I woke up this morning to start trucking away on work I was brought to my knees. The machine had an error message on it that leads you to believe one of three things has happened.

1. The machine got a bug while you were sleeping

2. The machine had a piece of hardware go bad

3. The machine just had windows wig out on it (thanks Bill!)

Since the machine is brand new and has no spyware on it or anything else malicious and the hardware all checked up it was option #3. Thanks to a shitty operating system (which is still better then a lot of the alternatives as far as ease of use for random things is) I am spending my friday reloading windows and reinstalling the applications I use. Thank God my system runs off of three different harddrives depending on what im doing so I still have all of my web work and media on the rig.

Linux is looking more and more appealing to me with every passing day.

Cheers,

Mike