So, Gentoo was up and running happily - GNOME, Tomboy, Beagle, the whole she-bang. Even my dev. environment was all set up nicely - CMake, OAL, OGL, ODE, etc. all installed.

I had put some finishing touches on my CMake scripts, finally getting Treits building and running to an acceptable level under Linux, I decided to head out and catch a movie...

...two hours later...

I get home and my comp is making weird-ass whirr-beeping sounds, try to use my desktop - whole thing is practically locked up it's so slow.

Thinking it's my motherboard bitching about the heat, I turn it off and let it cool for a half-hour or so... Only to turn it on and have linux complain about data corruption... and then the whirr-beeping starts again. Shit.

I've spent most of the last two weeks using the other computers in the house. A flash new PSU and an Ubuntu LiveCD later, I have a fairly capable box running, *thumbs up*. I guess the only thing to do now is wait until I can afford a new hard drive and hope to hell that everything on it is at least recoverable...

Update: after a few weeks of worrying about it all, I ended up plugging the old drive in... And everything worked! I guess the power/overheating was screwing up the southbridge or something and causing data loss... hmm, oh well, all is good now.

Here I'll be mentioning all the coding stuff I'll be doing (once my comp is back and working properly) on GNOME, maybe some KDE, and my own 3d game engine - everyone's gotta have one!