Countdown to the New Year

Take a look at this: http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/newyear.html?p0=224

We only have so much time left before it's 2010 in the Pacific Time Zone.  Also, take note that according to a KCBS news broadcast, the proper pronunciation of "2010" is "twenty ten."  That will take some time to get used to.

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Hard drive replacement and installation of Ubuntu

Here we have my new hard drive placed in the laptop, and Ubuntu as my choice of OS for the time being, since I don't have a Windows install disk.

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Ubuntu 9.10

I don't really like the default theme for Ubuntu 9.10.  At least they didn't change the start up music.

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Flight Gear

I am extremely impressed with the rendering capability of Flight Gear with only the Intel GMA.  I'll make a quick flight video later, assuming the program is able to produce good frame rates with Fraps.

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Dell Inspiron 1525 Laptop - Hard Drive failure

Here we are, the hard drive that is not functional anymore.

The story: this morning I managed woke up and saw that the laptop said "Windows cannot find boot disk" and I was thought to myself, "Uh."  Thinking a quick switch off with the power button would solve the problem, the computer booted normally, and then I got to the welcome screen.  I signed in, and thinking the computer was simply being slow and not responding, I just turned it off, since I was in a hurry to leave for San Francisco.  When I got to my aunt's house in San Francisco, I turned on the computer and heard clicking sounds. I knew I was doomed.  But getting very bored, I went ahead and booted windows normally.  Amazingly, I was able to sign in, and my wallpaper displayed, and then it stopped responding, with only the stupid click of death.

And what was the size of the computer's hard drive...250 GB.  It had two partitions - one for Windows 6 and the other for Windows 7.  But either way, I basically lost about 230 GB of data, since there was about 9 GB of free space on one partion and 2 GB of free space on the other partition. 

And here is a list of some programs I need to re-install when I get my replacement:

• Microsoft Flight Simulator X*^
• Microsoft Office^
• Firefox*^
  
• Sibelius 5^
• Google Earth
• Google Talk*
  
• iTunes and QuickTime*
  
• Adobe Premiere Elements 7.0
• CamStudio
• Fraps (Demo)
  
• Any Video Converter
• Avira Antivir

*these programs are used daily
^these programs are unnecessarily hard to install

As for a replacements:
http://www.frys.com/search?search_type=regular&sqxts=1&query_string=notebook+hard+drive&cat=48938&submit.x=0&submit.y=0

This is just one untimely incident, since this winter break was supposed to be my time to BACKUP and ORGANIZE my files - and I just got started not too long ago too............

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