This saturday my girlfriend and i had a great day yard-sale hoppin'. we scored a bunch of stuff for our new apts at ridiculous prices. I was thrilled to have some stuff for my new place. When i got home Jackie surfed the web for a min and then i got on. I shut my win box down to do somethin' on my mac - i lost my network switch's power adapter in the move, so, for the moment i'm swappin' boxes (sorry jason and scott, i'm gonna have a new another ip soon) to get online. when i rebooted my win box i got the dreaded 'system32/config/system' has been corrupted or deleted...' message. WTF, it was just runnin'... I... just... aahhhh!!!. Now, i believe i've encountered this before, but, probably more than once, however, i don't freakin' remember the details of gettin' thru this, nor, do i wanna remember those details. My days of wanting to know everything about how my computer works are over. i just want my system to work so i can write code in peace, and, work on music and graphics. This was quite frustrating, too say the least. Every couple of years it seems some catastrophe happens to my system and i end up starting over - passwords, music/video, personal/freelance work, other junk i've got lying around that i might want someday. luckily, i had my passwords stored in KeyPass (or, whatever the password storage software i've been using is called) on a USB stick. but, once again, a bunch of stuff is most likely lost. The last time something like this happened i told myself that i was done with window and intended to switch to Linux. well, that day never arrived... or, has it? This is the last straw, i'm done with windows. i'm lazy and don't like the mundane details of... well, anything. i'm a creature of habit and i like my work flow to be a habitual process, i like to intuitively know the steps without having to think about them, and, when my computer blows up, my whole world is shaken up. Now that i'm on a mac at work i'm thinkin' of gettin' another one for home, however, i'm not ready to buy a new home computer just yet, so, i'm switchin' to linux now... maybe...