Network messed up completely

"How about let's do it today?"

I have attempted to complete the move from folk to western yesterday; and while I was at it, moved some other hard disks and computers around, too. Osamu Aoki had given me a computer he didn't need anymore – a dual Celeron @ 433Mhz, which is probably faster for some tasks than my PentiumIII @ 650Mhz – so I used rock, my desktop, to replace pop, my parent's box, and used the new box to replace rock.

Of course, nothing works as it should when you attempt to do such a thing.

rock didn't like the hard disk from pop, and when I attempted to install windows, it found a lot of errors for some strange reason. It took me a while to discover that this was out of the ordinary, but of course by that time the damage had been done -- the entire 30G partition containing most of the data on pop was corrupted. With (almost) no backups. Aargh!

western didn't like the second network card I put in the machine, so I only have one (X less) box with an Internet connection at home currently. Grmbl.

I put pop's hard disk aside for the time being, and will try to find out what went wrong sometime this weekend. The Internet connection isn't as important. But for the record, I'd just like to say that hardware sucks. Majorly.