I give up.
I've had it with exploding hard drives.
Either I got a bum replacement for my laptop drive, or the problem is worse--my laptop is hungry and likes platters of magnetic particles.
Yup, that's right. It looks like something is hosed. I'm hoping that it's just a few corrupted files, so I'll be upgrading the linux install over the next day or two, but I am fearing the worst.
Wish me luck.
In other news, looks like May 16th will be made through putty instead of linux ssh. Here goes nothing.
