The Hazards of Computers

 So as you know I brought my computer with me on the trip(well duh ive been blogging and using the internet). So th hostel I am at has unlimited internet and after taking advanage of it last night to update all my podcasts adn chat wih my mom I put the computer into Hiberntion, when I got up this morning I turned the laptp on to find myself face to face with th Linux (opn source OS i use) eqievalant of the blue screen of death. 
Now for Linux this looks less like a blue screen and more like a wall of text, imagine your computer got stuck on all he stuff tha appears when it first stated up, all the letters and numbers that you have absolutly no idea what hey mean. So to begin with I did not panic, Ubuntu is very good about having built in help functions that will vluate and fix the problems for you, I started i up and much to my chagrin it gave me the same error. Now I strted to panic, I didn't realize until just then how much I use my laptop, it charges my Ipod which is a sourc of entertainmnt and helps to kep me calm when I think things are going wrong, I store my photos on it, use it to update my blog an get podcasts, stay up to date with news. The single biggest thing that occurd to me was that I have a spreadsheet  have been using to kep trac of my money and that is a vry important thing that I was losing. 
 
The Hostel im in has free computers with internet so I immeidiatly hopped onto the Ubuntu support forums )one of the best resources for fixing and broken computer runnig Ubuntu). I locateed the problem pretty quick and found that it was that the OS no longer found the hard drive and you could fix it but you needed a Ubuntu install CD, of which I have none, after poking around I found you could do it with a USB drive and went to the nearest electronics store. Now if you know me you may know I LOVE video games, and what do you expect to find at an electronics store...video games, I had to walk through a large selection of everything I ws missing including games that I had missed the realease of and all I could do was drool knowing it was not possible t bu them for a multitude of reasons. I got eh USB drive and I am trying to put on the installer but for now
  

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 So as you know I brought my computer with me on the trip(well duh ive been blogging and using the internet). So th hostel I am at has unlimited internet and after taking advanage of it last night to update all my podcasts adn chat wih my mom I put the computer into Hiberntion, when I got up this morning I turned the laptp on to find myself face to face with th Linux (opn source OS i use) eqievalant of the blue screen of death. 
Now for Linux this looks less like a blue screen and more like a wall of text, imagine your computer got stuck on all he stuff tha appears when it first stated up, all the letters and numbers that you have absolutly no idea what hey mean. So to begin with I did not panic, Ubuntu is very good about having built in help functions that will vluate and fix the problems for you, I started i up and much to my chagrin it gave me the same error. Now I strted to panic, I didn't realize until just then how much I use my laptop, it charges my Ipod which is a sourc of entertainmnt and helps to kep me calm when I think things are going wrong, I store my photos on it, use it to update my blog an get podcasts, stay up to date with news. The single biggest thing that occurd to me was that I have a spreadsheet  have been using to kep trac of my money and that is a vry important thing that I was losing. 
 
The Hostel im in has free computers with internet so I immeidiatly hopped onto the Ubuntu support forums )one of the best resources for fixing and broken computer runnig Ubuntu). I locateed the problem pretty quick and found that it was that the OS no longer found the hard drive and you could fix it but you needed a Ubuntu install CD, of which I have none, after poking around I found you could do it with a USB drive and went to the nearest electronics store. Now if you know me you may know I LOVE video games, and what do you expect to find at an electronics store...video games, I had to walk through a large selection of everything I ws missing including games that I had missed the realease of and all I could do was drool knowing it was not possible t bu them for a multitude of reasons. I got eh USB drive and I am trying to put on the installer but for now
  

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That shit sux big time, brother. Bricked electronics can kill any trip. Sex some girls up where ever you're at to get your mind off that shit.

" That shit sux big time, brother. Bricked electronics can kill any trip. Sex some girls up where ever you're at to get your mind off that shit. "

That sucks. I partially bricked my Wii. Freaked out and got it back after like 4 hours.

Must be so painful walking through that store! Good luck with your laptop.

Sounds like your laptop over heated :(.

Bricked in a foreign country too. Good luck Mac.

I had a similar experience back when I dual booted. I decided I no longer wanted Ubuntu, so from Windows I just formatted that partition and merged it back into one big one. Well, I forgot I used GRUB as my boot loader. GRUB, as you could imagine, had trouble finding what it needed to boot, so I had to fire up my old P4 box and browse for the new command on the Vista install cd that installed the bootloader. That was one hell of a night.

dang that sucks a lot. it sucks even more when u really want the computer to be working but doesn't. i hope u get ur computer working again.