For the last week or so my powerbook has been getting more and more flaky with regard to keeping an internet connection. All the local apps work fine, but if I try to do anything requiring making connections it is slooooooooooow.
Yesterday I repaired permissions and that didn’t seem to help, so I took the next step and dug out the OS X install dvd to boot up and repair the hard drive. Um, yeah. Not so much. It threw some unfixable disk error. Lovely.
But it could be worse, I could have to deal with skunks…
I’ve not done a clean install on this system since, well, ever. Its been over two years since I got my 15″ bundle of joy so its not a totally unexpected thing. The system has had a lot of unnecessary crap accumulating on it for a while now. I don’t mind a reinstall too much, when it isn’t a result of a catastrophic failure, its like spring cleaning for your OS. Spent last night dumping pretty much everything to my external drive, a purchase that I am now extremely happy that I made. I’m going to run home at lunch and copy a couple of other things I remembered to back up and then set it to wiping.
Regarding this entry’s title, Frosty sums up the situation:
Sorry about your computer deciding to suck. It seems that there is a
very limited number of things where it is a positive outcome when
they decide to suck. Vacuums are one of these. Computers are not.
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