Monday, November 01, 2004

Musings

One of the reference desk computers is making an odd knocking sound. I've heard computers make grinding noises, but never anything like this. It sounds like an itty bitty man's inside with a itty bitty hammer. Freaky. Damn thing froze midday and needed three tries to reboot. The thing's dying and it's painful to watch.

I am now on vacation for a week. Yeeha! It was nice and light when I left for work, dark when I left to come home. I hate this. I wish we could have Daylight Savings Time all year round. And it always takes a while for me to adjust to no sunshine at 5 pm.

I found a few nice more nice blogs via Blog Explosion so I figure I should pimp them.
  • Gita Manas: Nice layout, if a bit dark and hard to read. I've got it on Bloglines, which makes it much easier to read. Well written, it gets intense at times, but I'm hooked.
  • One Whipped Mother: This has attitude from top to bottom. She grabbed me by the shirt and hasn't let go.
  • Suburban Lesbian: Another well-written blog by someone with interesting things to say.
  • Travels in Booland: Oddly enough, though I'm not much interested in Mommy or Family blogs, I've found a few I really enjoy, and this is another one.
  • Wannabemuse: Hey, she's a librarian! I have to like her blog. :) Nicely written, lovely layout/design.

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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:52 AM

    There aren't that many moving parts in a computer.
    Fans - one or more in the power supply, maybe a case fan and usually a fan for the CPU - the main chip, the brain of the computer. Disk drives have spinning platters and heads that move to read the disc tracks. That's pretty much it for moving stuff in the box. Judging by the reboot issue, its probably the CPU fan. Fix it now for a cost of less than $20 in parts or wait and replace the whole thing because the CPU has fried.

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  2. ShellyS9:08 AM

    I've heard computers with bad fans and they never sounded like the computer at work. And the PC in question has been odd from the beginning. The sound was eerie and we could hear it from across the room. We've got a ticket in with our IT group and are hoping they'll tell us the whole damned thing needs to be replaced.

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  3. Anonymous3:11 AM

    Hey, thanks for pimping my site!

    p.s. I'm a librarian too. There are a lot of us blogging librarians around, seems like.

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  4. ShellyS1:13 PM

    Hi, Elswhere, thanks for stopping by. Yup, I've found a lot of wonderful librarian blogs.

    Update on the reference desk PC that was making noise. It's been replaced. Bad hard drive.

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