CPU Meltdown
Monday morning I awoke to a strange odour: the smell of Bakelite, familiar to geeks everywhere as the reek emitted when the Magic Smoke™ is freed from electronics. It appears that my CPU fan failed, leading to a CPU meltdown.
I replaced the power supply, motherboard and CPU; this in turn necessitated an upgraded operating system (since the old CPU was an Athlon and the current one is a Pentium D). So I’m now running a very much nicer setup than before. Life is pretty good.
Although I am a bit sad that I'm running atop a Pentium now. Oh well.
