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So, I had a hell of a day yesterday. Was trying to upgrade PHP on the webserver from v.4 to v.5 and in the process, managed to knock our discussion boards offline for about 5 hours in the process. Found out today, PHP doesn't come precompiled for MySQL anymore. You have to enable it in the .ini file. Would have been nice to know yesterday... but this is the way life works.

Then today....

I get this idea to upgrade my ram in my computer. Occasionally I had been getting messages related to memory issues that caused the computer to blue screen. Not often enough for it to be a major annoyance. That and with the anti virus running in the background and spy sweeping... More overhead would be good right?

Anyway, went to staples and picked up a 512 mb dim. Figured I would pop it in with my 2 256 sticks in there. They are all pc133. No prob right? First time boot... Bunch of error messages come up. Reboot. Figure, maybe windows needed to register the new memory or had shit stored on the ram sticks.

Second time... Boots in. Beauty. Runs for 20 minutes. Reboots itself.

Drive 2 in raid array shows critical status. Shit. Apparently drive has become removed from array. Rebuild.

An hour later. Remove 512 mb ram and reboot with original ram. Many errors on first boot. 2nd boot... Stalls.

Ok, so I figure one of the sticks has gone bad... Maybe removing them and just popping in the 512 stick will work. IN the process, I find another 256 133 stick so I pop it in there.

1st boot, errors. 2nd boot... We are in. Windows says it had to restore data from a backup of the registry. Tells me this 3x. Then seems to run.

Hmm.

Reboot.

Array 2 dead again. Currently rebuilding. 20% completed - removed all but 512 stick.

Tomorrow... Heading out for a) new motherboard, processor and ram OR b) new box computer from sony.

I am so done with this shit. I hate computers.

Typing this on my Mac G4 - Which is running fine..........