The scene from Office Space, you all know the one I’m talking about… where the three of them go to town on the P.O.S. printer. I’m in that place right now.
My main workstation at home has been having all kinds of problems for the last couple years, with two or three blue screens due to DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION errors, with the second one so bad that I had to recover the system from backup. It was fortunate that I had a recent enough backup that this was even possible. Sprinkled in between have been all kinds of sporadic restarts that seemed to come on when the system was being brought out of sleep. Now, to be sure, this system is VERY long in the tooth, I built it a month or two after the RTM release of Windows 7, so going on almost exactly 9 years.
I’ve been putting off replacing it for a while now, but it looks like I no longer have the luxury of waiting any more. Not looking forward to dropping the coin on the replacement, but if it were to go completely T.U. without something to take its place, I would really be up a creek without a paddle.
Wallet, look out…