Broken power switch.

 Not to long ago my son and my dog tag teamed my computer while I was taking a break from swapping out parts. The boy pulled out the wires to my front power button and the dog came along and ate them. This made me oh so happy. I batted around a few idea's which included soldering up wires from another case, replacing the case, or possibly ordering a new power switch. Then it hit me. I looked at the motherboard and sure enough the reset switch (you know that small button under the big power button that no one ever uses) has the same connector as the power switch. So I simply moved it over and now I have a fully functional and smaller power switch.

Moral of the story is never leave your computer unattended when it is open. And now I finally know why they put that little back-up power switch in there.

Upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04

 The other day I upgraded my computer by installing the latest version of Ubuntu Linux. 11.04. My Computer is a dual boot system with Windows XP. The install went fine but for some reason my Grub stopped working. For those of you who do not know Grub is a program that allows you to select which operating system you wish to use each time you turn on your computer. I was very lucky that I also have a laptop because I ended up having to download Ubuntu on it and burn a disk and then fix my grub that way. I don't know if it's me or what but it seems that every time I upgrade Linux I have the same problem. So my advice to anyone else out there that is getting ready to upgrade is to make sure that you make a startup disk before you even start the upgrade.