Why does a computer have so many little bits in it?
I have a rather strange disease. It is a disease which is neither transmittable or hereditory, and it affects only one in a million. A disease with consequences so serious that I am forced to live in denial for the majority of my life. I have electrosensitive-negativity.
What is this terrible affliction? Why it is simple. If I buy any electronic or electric device it will invariably not work. Most of the time it will not work in some minor way, but I will still need to fix it anyway. This will result in other things not working and so on and so forth. Ironically, I love electronics. I love working with computers, sound, anything, but every time I buy something I have to thoroughly test it as I nearly always find something wrong with the damn device.
The latest to fall victim to this curse is a new IDE adapter which I just bought. This funky little device allows me to get my Zip drive to communicate with my computer again as I gave it’s spot on the board to my new burner. After carefully installing it and testing each component I put the machine back together and watched it not do anything. I tried changing the connections. Nothing. I tweaked just about everything I could tweak and it still fails to recognize the drive.
This seems quite trivial, I’m sure, if it wasn’t for the fact that a lot of my project work is sitting on Zip disks. As you can see, this is getting rather serious. The worst of it is, that the card is clearly not at fault. I know the card works, because all drivers are functioning and all programs are accepting the card. I know the zip drive is attached correctly to the card and it still works because when the machine is powered on the zip disk logs whatever is inside it’s mouth. I even know that the zip disk works because it reads and accepts disks, even if it can’t communicate with the computer.
Thus, there is some deeply hidden and essentially impossible to find problem within my computer that is causing some serious issues. And just when it was all going so well
In other news, university work seems to be going reasonably well. I have recently gotten a group for one of my worst assignments and done some work on one of the more pressing tasks. Still, there is a long way to go before I can safely begin procrastinating again.