I’m using my phone right now because my PC is having some kind of a tantrum again. Did you know that in Windows 7 the Blue Screen of Death is a lovely chartruse? That’s spelled wrong isn’t it? Must figure out how to turn on the spell checker on this gadget.
Feel free to use this as an open comment thread. (unless you’re a spammer) A little something to get things started: There is a tiny town in NE Oklahoma named White Oak. Last time I was driving through that area, as I was getting close to White Oak, for just a couple of seconds I thought I was approaching Whitefall.
October 12th, 2011 - 3:21 pm
I think it’s “chartreuse.” From the French.
Of course I’d come up with the pedantic comment on an open-comment thread…
October 12th, 2011 - 5:20 pm
That’s okay, I knew I had it wrong. That’s a little strange because it’s one of my favorite words. You would think I’d know how to spell it.
Anyway, every time I hear “chartreuse” I think of that silly 70′s song, Convoy, that has a line about a “chartreuse” micro-bus. And the color name is almost too sophisticated for the color itself, which makes it sort of cool.
October 12th, 2011 - 5:33 pm
Chartreuse is correct. Firefox automatic spell checker for the win.
And furthermore, since this was a Windows 7 is broke again post: Ubuntu FTW.
It’s handy having both windows and ubuntu on your computer, because if you get some kind of nasty spyware or malware in windows, you can go into Ubuntu, mount the windows partition, and just delete the malware, since it won’t run when windows isn’t running.
But what if Ubuntu gets malware on it? Hasn’t happened yet. Why go to the trouble to write malware that only works on 1% of the computers?
October 12th, 2011 - 5:50 pm
The problem seems to be that it keeps trying to boot from the wrong hard drive. We put our old, full hard drive in the new PC in addition to the new, bigger, mostly empty hard drive. For some reason it likes the old one better.
October 12th, 2011 - 5:54 pm
At least that’s the explanation I was given, which explains why it won’t restart but doesn’t seem to explain why it crashes in the first place. Anyway, it’s fixed now. Until it does it again.
October 14th, 2011 - 4:38 pm
Is there a slave/master jumper? Is the “correct” drive plugged into SATA1?
I’m sure the resident IT guy has checked those things…
I don’t have these problems when using GRUB.