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Thursday night I arrived home and had to do a couple of things on my computer.
To those of you that dona^??t know yet a^?? By a^?oeMy computera^?? I mean my 2.4MHz AMD Athlon PC with Windows XP installed. This is where I do all my stuff a^?? Work, academics, pictures, music etca^??
I obviously also have a great and cool Linux box running this site, but ita^??s not a^?oeMy computera^?? in the more traditional desktop PC day-to-day use.

Back to our story a^?? I turn my computer on and a^?? NOTHING. Absolutely nothing happens. I mean the power is turned on, the fans are turning, but thata^??s thata^?? Not even the BIOS is working..!

I opened the PC case and started to plug-in-and-out the memory, hard drives, CMOS battery a^?? Nothing works!
I assume ita^??s either the CPU or the motherboard that went belly up… (?!)
Since I dona^??t have an extra CPU or motherboard, therea^??s no way for me to find and fix the problem myself. I would have to take it to the shop tomorrow.
Thata^??s SO frustrating! My whole life is on that PC. Obviously I backup regularly, but last time was quite a while ago… Couple of months…

Anyhow a^?? The plus side is that I have the awesome Ubuntu Linux installed on my Linux server so ita^??s a great desktop substitute for the time being.
Ita^??s been a few months since Ia^??ve used Ubuntu Linux as my desktop OS, and ita^??s kinda cool to be doing this againa^??
First thing Ia^??ve noticed for the 2 days Ia^??ve been running Ubuntu a^?? The version of aMule in the latest Ubuntu release kicks butt!
Ita^??s really stable and runs fast.

More updates latera^??