found drama

Poor Detonator-3, you’ve just never been the same… In this on-going saga, the plot thickened recently as this poor box continues to choke on Firewire. It seems to do OK if a device is attached briefly (maybe 5-10 minutes) but anything beyond that and the whole OS just staaaaaaaaaalls… And eventually either crashes altogether or needs a hard reboot to get itself back in any semblance of working. This is pretty disappointing since I thought we’d gotten past that back around December or so. So much for that. Ever since that started happening again though, a lot of other weirdness has cropped up. Apps that normally show up in the system tray have disappeared altogether (though still appear in the Processes listing). The keyboard and mouse drivers flake out spontaneously, too.

grrrrrrr...

The system seems somewhat stable (if slow) except for those problems. Of course, I haven’t asked it to do anything more demanding than run iTunes and Firefox and jEdit simultaneously lately. *knocks on wood*

All that seems to make this news a little unbearable though. Note to self: Be patient; don’t do anything rash. Ugh– now that I think about it, I’m finding that the most appealing part of the mini is that it doesn’t come with all that extraneous crap like an extra keyboard and mouse. Is that going to be a shipping option, I wonder (and doubt).

currently playing: Kruder & Dorfmeister “Original Bedroom Rockers”

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