Friday, September 08, 2006

Really Really Bad Technical Day

Technology hates me today. I finally get my cable and internet installed today. I'm "lucky" enough to get the new Comcast PVR with the HDMI output. So I don't have any way to test it until my new TV arrives next week. I get the bright idea that I can get an HDMI to DVI adapter and use my monitor to watch TV till my new one shows up. However HDCP decides to bite me in the ass and it won't work. Fine, I can listen to TV now. Better than nothing.

Next I'm setting up my new wireless router with the new cable modem. Everything working fine. Then my laptop locks up so I force reboot it. It comes back and I try to log in and it tells me it can't let me log in now. I do a search on my other computer and it saying there is something wrong with my FileVault home directory. So I boot the laptop into target mode and attach it to my Mini. Try to mount the home directory, no dice. Corrupted. Try some repair utilities nothing works. So I can at least move the old image out of the way and make a new one so I can at least use my laptop, but I've lost my home directory for now. I'll check with the helpdesk at work on Monday to see if they have any tricks to fix it, but I'm not holding out much hope.

Anyway one of the things I lost in my home directory was the files I need to keep using iWeb for my blog. I'd been thinking of ditching it for a while anyway. So this was a nice kick to take another step in my Googlification and start using Blogger. Now I have to get a new entry into my iWeb blog to point people here.

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