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This past week has been a little stressful at work. I am in the middle of an important project which has a very tight deadline. The last thing I needed was a computer crapout, but that is exactly what happened.

Another person at the office had exerienced a phenomenon where files and directories that their domain profiled owned were being marked read-only, permissions to alter the files were being removed, and nothing they did would fix this. The IT department was stymied, and their solution was to re-install the OS on a new hard drive, then hook up the existing drive as a slave. All files were intact, and there was no chance of whatever was going wrong to repeat.

Well, Wednesday, something like that started happening to me. Scary, strange, and very odd. Thursday my machine was re-installed, and I got to spend time reinstalling the software that I use to do my job. Very craptacular.

The benefit of this is that my machine is now running faster, and so far, seems more stable. The downside was that I lost more than a days worth of time for the project. Amazing amounts of stress. Not something I need right now.

Over the next while I am going to try and record here on this blog, what software I have installed on my shiny new OS, and what I use it for. The point isn't to make any big revelations, but is in fact more of a record in case something like this happens again.