I have been having all sorts of odd computer problems lately. Well, some of the problems were odd- some were due to the fact that I don’t know quite enough about Linux yet.

Last week when I wanted to present using Ubuntu, I had trouble connecting the projector to the laptop. I ended up having to boot into Windows to do the presentation - so I couldn’t show the sugar emulation. The day before that, I broke xorg.conf altogether (luckily, the GUI xorg editor makes backups, so that was fixed easily enough.)

At home, I somehow made it so my bamboo tablet doesn’t talk to the Ubuntu computer anymore. Don’t know why- it was working fine before, and for the life of me I can’t think of anything I changed. So that’s annoying. I need to remember to make a backup of xorg.conf when I have the settings the way I like them, just in case.

Also on the Ubuntu machine, my keydrive became read only all of a sudden. Don’t know why- I used to be able to read and write to it, but now it is read only.

On the windows machine- well, first, I’ve installed so much junk that it takes forever to start up now. Also the other night I was having weird copy paste problems- namely, it was only letting me copy and paste half the time.

On my work windows machine, I somehow lost the ability to drag and drop. everywhere. It fixed itself after a few reboots. Also, occasionally Lotus notes just stops working through the day. Also, a folder mysteriously appears back on my desktop no matter ho many times I delete it.

The mac at work has been closing Firefox on me all of a sudden- just *poof* it’s gone. It may have to do with the fact that there is not enough memory on it. At least it’s not shutting off every 5 minutes like it was before.

I bought a new video card for the Windows machine so I can watch video on the TV in the living room, and at first I couldn’t get it set up. NVidia has some weird settings that keep getting checked, and I keep thinking “why in the hell would *anyone* want to do that?”

Our network is having problems too- the XBox media center occasionally can’t find the network, even though it is hardwired.

Synergy is acting weird too- the edges of the screen used to map just fine, but now when I move off the left top edge of my windows computer, it goes to the middle of the Ubuntu machine. Maybe it has something to do with the new video card?

The worst part of all this is that I’m in a stretch of time that I just have to get stuff done- usually I don’t mind tinkering around and fixing stuff- but I have a LOT of stuff due, and work has been busy. So, for the time being Synergy will map weird, my Bamboo Tablet won’t work (I’m thinking of bringing it to work for now anyway) and I won’t be able to present with the ubuntu side of my laptop. LeSigh.

I sometimes think that I emit some weird electromagnetic aura that messes with computers.