It seems that the replacement motherboard that I got last month, for my Dell XPS m1210 laptop, had some problems… the system just died tonight, and Dell’s support line says that it looks like the motherboard again, with a different problem. I was an electronics technician for the USPS for many years before I turned professional software developer, and I’ve seen a number of replacement electronic parts that failed within minutes of installing them, so I’m not too surprised or upset by this — it lasted nearly six weeks, after all.

Fortunately, I’d finished the major troubleshooting on the new Project Badger code a few hours before it threw in the towel, because the only other system I have set up right now is Mini-mEee, and it doesn’t really have the horsepower to run Windows XP in VMware. It’ll be Wednesday before they can get the part (and the technician to install it) out here, because it was after 5pm when I called.

Oh well, I guess I’ll get a chance to do some other things for a bit. Maybe even mow the lawn, like my wife has been nagging me to do for a couple weeks now. 🙂