i had an unwanted crash on the chromebook immediately when i woke up yesterday afternoon (the 1st) and decided to just shut down, finish my monthly cleaning and file the production computer a little, instead.
i've been trying to get everything off my 2 tb drive because i don't think xp is reading it well. i want to split it into four 500 gb partitions instead. it can read the 2 tb drive and everything, i just think the reason it's crashing is because it's too big. the max partition size is 2 tb, so i'm pushing it. my other drives are 250 gb, and they don't have any problems.
i also did some testing in cubase and have decided that there's probably a bug in the evaluation version of cubase, or something to do with the driver. the cubase dongle emulator is constantly sending data back and forth, and i'm starting to think that what's happening is that it's crashing due to some kind of read error. i don't know why it's happening all of a sudden, but i'm not convinced it's hardware, like i was previously.
the two errors - the search hang on the 2 tb drive and the cubase halt, reproducible via scanning through the transport menu - may look like they're the same thing, but i don't think they are. if i can fix the search problem...
i'm also building a new xp image that just removes all network functionality, as i'm still confused by some weird behaviour i'm seeing that suggests somebody is trying to slave the machine via the bios. there's no network card in this device, but it keeps reinstalling domain software, randomly, and keeps trying to apply group policies i don't recognize. the new image has no dhcp, no dns, no netbios, etc. and, that's fine - nobody should be connecting their xp machines to the internet in the 2020s.
and, i got an extension on my bullshit fine that the cops pulled a dirty trick on me around. it seems like my appeal has been granted. so, i'll need to prepare for that this week.
