Tech Gods Hate Ricky Day!
Is it the official Tech Gods Hate Ricky day and somebody forgot to tell me???

So far I've had one drive die completely - SMART status is "failing" and OS X thinks it has no valid file system. Both of my other drives have had some softwarish errors (since fixed, yay Disk Utility). There's Something Wonky with the fans in my Mac Pro as well.

Oh, and the computer has locked up solid (grey "please press power button" screen) twice and it's only 2pm[*]. One of these times, of course, was while I was trying to record a friend and my doc on TV this morning talking about CFS. Did anybody else record it in a sharable way?

The drive that died was the one that had my backups on it, which was actually the Least Worst one to go if one was going to go. And it's under AppleCare warranty so the Apple techs will be visiting shortly. In the mean time I have connected a USB drive and I'm backing things up to that as I type because there's no way I trust this computer right now!

If you don't hear from me, you'll know the Tech Gods won :)


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[*] For reference of my Windows friends - this has probably only happened once since Christmas, aside from today.