disruption.ca

The web server that hosts this blog died about a month ago.  Strange intermittent errors made me suspect the ram had gone bad.  Or in the worst case, the motherboard.  Many sticks of ram, motherboards and power supplies later, it was determined that the cpu was actually the culprit.  It’s never even occurred to me that a cpu can go bad one day while it’s running.  It was well cooled, and not overclocked.  Perhaps it was a problem with the Athlon 64 onboard memory controller?  After much procrastination, a budget cpu motherboard combo is now in place.  It should keep the site up and running for the foreseeable future.