Augury

I was thinking the other day about how much time I really end up spending doing maintenance sort of work on my computer. Specifically, on this Windows machine as opposed to my Mac. All of the antivirus, antispyware, anti-everything-else that targets or afflicts only Windows machines. If I weren’t doing development that required me to primarily use Windows I’d gladly move on back to OS X.

So today I’m browsing the web and listening to music and my computer crashes — to a BSOD. Wonderful.

I turn the machine off, go grab myself a drink and sit down for a few minutes, then come back to it. Boot it up, everything looks okay, no obvious error messages. Start up Firefox again, get back into the swing of things for an hour or two… And get hit by another BSOD.

I’m really hoping this isn’t going to continue.

Talking on the phone the other day, one of the guys in the D&D group apparently had a critical computer issue not too long ago. The whole thing apparently was so clogged with dust that the fan stopped working and some parts melted. I had just finished sending him an email asking if I could buy his used parts cheap when my first BSOD hit. So after the second one I opened up the case and did a little cleaning, but it wasn’t all that bad in there for a computer.

Other than the dust issue or possibly one of the new programs I just installed a day or two ago, I’m drawing a blank. And that’s a bad thing. So hopefully I can diagnose whatever the issue is if it continues, though in an even better future I won’t have any more such problems.