Something to fill the silence
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So, I've been quite in the last couple of days since I work where I don't have internet connection that I can easily use, and my home computer finally decided to kiss the pavement and dropped dead.

I'm pretty sure that the problem is that I used a SATA HD for this, since most of the problems with it started then. Seems to me that my BIOS is a bit freakish about SATA HD as a boot device, and the Windows installer needed a bloody floppy drive before it would recognize it.

I tried to fix it using the recovery console, but I couldn't fix it in five minutes, which mean that I could probably fix it in five hours, but that would take a lot more effort than I need. I'm currently installing Windows on an IDE drive, so hopefully I'll be able to restore most of my stuff quickly. Of the three applications that I use the most, Outlook & RSS Bandit can easily be set to their previous state, and my VS.Net installation isn't customized to any significant degree.

My sole worry is that I would have a hard time porting my SpamBayes settings, but that should be easy enough, considering that it is just flat files.

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