Norman Ralph » Chess http://www.normanralph.com Musings, News and Achievements Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Another day, another problem. http://www.normanralph.com/2007/11/07/another-day-another-problem/ http://www.normanralph.com/2007/11/07/another-day-another-problem/#comments Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:02:24 +0000 Norm http://www.normanralph.com/2007/11/07/another-day-another-problem/ Last night my hard drive failed. The second hard drive in six months to roll over. Well technically this is the same drive that rolled over last time, so really I should have expected it. The first time round the Windows installation was affected by a damagaed disk surface – or so I thought, but after a re-install and a few weeks of messing about I managed to recover the disk. This time it is a total failure, so a new hard drive is currently winging its way from Ebuyer (many thanks to my sponsor, Liz :) ).

Unfortunately, the hard drive that failed was my windows install drive and I don’t want to install windows on my second hard drive. So until the new disk arrives I am stuck using my linux box for everything. Now I like linux – it is easy to use and definitely the most intuitive system I have come across (I use Ubuntu 7.04 (for desktop) at the moment) but it does have several drawbacks. First the chess game AI is far too difficult. I am a good chess player and struggle to beat the computer on Easy and Medium. The other fault is its incompatibility with modern games. It is a bind to install them and then it’s a lottery as to whether they will even run. This wouldn’t normally be a problem for me as I tend to only use my linux machine for programming and other work related things. However, in the current situation it is annoying – especially as our internet keeps going down!

Anyway, my new disk should be here today so hopefully I will be back up and running by tonight.

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