Song of the Geek

Doug Corleone – Last Lawyer Standing Nourish The Beast

Song of the Geek

Two 1gb memory sticks have been ordered, as has a new hard drive. I tried to fire up the old desktop today to make sure I had everything off it I wanted, and it was ALL dead. Nothing left to do but go through its clothes and look for loose change. And so, of course, I wrote a poem, if “poem” is the word I want.

SONG OF THE GEEK

by Marian Allen

My computer wasn’t loading

Wasn’t booting up the system

Wasn’t booting, but was hanging,

Hanging, showing module failure.

A corruption in the OS?

After all, it was Mandriva.

Known, Mandriva, to be buggy.

So I reinstalled Mandriva.

Days went by without a problem

Then, once more, bootloader problems.

Many were the online fora

I perused in search of answers

Many were the Linux gurus’

Brains I picked in vain for guidance.

Many were the Linux flavors

I downloaded, but all failed me.

Maybe if I start with “format”….

Wiped the drive and all my data.

Nothing but Mandriva loaded.

Who knew hard drives mate forever?

Now I’m thinking, “Hard drive failure.”

Now I’ve ordered up a new one.

Now I’ve ordered RAM sticks mighty.

Mighty RAM sticks, nice bare hard drive.

Soon, I will install the hard drive,

Pop in place the mighty RAM sticks.

Soon, I will install the Linux —

Mint, Ubuntu, XUbuntu –

Possibly some other distro.

But it will not be Mandriva.