Work is killing my coding performance at home. After I code all day I have no desire to code all night. It was better when I was bored out of my mind doing online training classes and then I'd have to go home and play with Java or something to keep myself from going crazy.
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Ordering a new computer tonight. My parent's is beyond hope. I've ruled out everything, the only thing left is that the CPU is dead. Therefore I'll get a new computer and my parents can have mine. My parent's was giving me all kinds of wierd windows protection errors and about every blue screen it could generate. When it did work for five minutes explorer would crash with a a different DLL causing everytime.
Last week I helped my old boss out, he had a 133mhz laptop he was fixing up for a lady he knows and he couldn't get it to recognize the CD -ROM drive, it was a PCMCIA external drive. I remembered working on them before. It was just a matter of putting the right drivers in autoexec.bat and config.sys.
Also last week my friend thought his hard drive crapped out so he got a new one. When he put it in it didn't work either. I stopped over and one of the two plugs for IDE drives as working so I figured he could get a new IDE controller that would plug into an expansion slot. He got that and I went over Saturday and put it in. I then went into the BIOS to disable the IDE controller on the mother board and the primary IDE plug was already disabled. I thought this was rather wierd so I plugged it back into the motherboard and let it go and it worked perfectly. Seems wierd that something could change at random like that.
Not a good week for computers I'd say.