Wouldn’t you know it… Pretty much as soon as I was ready to get back into SL and start updating stuff, my laptop dies. This weekend the fan on my main laptop starting making the most horrible racket you ever want to hear from a computer, and within hours the fan stopped rotating altogether. I’ve been able to limp by without it by doing only the bare minimum of light work on this machine such as sending emails and light web browsing, but I’m pretty sure the machine would be reduced to a pile of smoking rubble if I even *attempted* to load Second Life.
Apparently I’m not the only one with this problem; as you can see if you click the image above, it seems to be fairly common with this model. This is the third time now that I’ve had to replace the fan, and being essentially poor financially embarrassed, I cannot afford to have the machine repaired by a qualified laptop repair technician, so I’ll be doing the work myself. I finally received my new fan this morning, so I’ll be starting the swearing and crying sensitive operation after I get a few cups of coffee in me.
If you’ve ever had to replace the fan on an HP laptop, you’ll probably share my urge to kill intense hatred for the designers who must have thought that it was perfectly logical to put the only moving part on the entire machine in such a place that you have to literally remove every other component to get to it. That’s right, as steelclash’s photo above shows, you actually do have to pull your laptop completely apart to replace the fan. And it’s a harrowing experience for me, one that I am really not looking forward to.
Once I get that done, though, I’ve got a bunch of code changes to update for the Taketori, and I will try to get an update released as soon as possible. I doubt that I will be able to accomplish that today, because certainly once I finally log in I will be unable to get much work done because I’ll be catching up, paying rents, etc, etc. But I will try to get it done and delivered by this weekend.
Among the important issues that this update will address are the stamina bug and the backward compatibility issue. I’ll provide more information in another post as soon as I am able, but I can feel the spot just left of the laptop’s touchpad getting warmer than I’d like so I’m going to wrap up this post and shut ‘er down in preparation for the butchery repair procedure.
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Speaking of instructors, that guy there on the left-hand side is Kurita-sensei, a former 
As soon as I can find the room, I’m going to sit down with a cup of fresh-brewed coffee and a big old slice of chocolate cake that my daughter made for me today at some point when I wasn’t looking, the little sneaker. I’ve already tried some of it, and I have to say, that girl makes a mean freaking cake. She may only be in her teens, but her cakes are easily as good as any other I’ve ever tried. I sure wish I knew what the hell she was doing differently, since her cakes are better than mine, haha. In any case, I expect that I’ll thoroughly enjoy dessert as well.
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