Does this suggest anything to intelligent users?

[james_davis_nicoll]

Three things started happened at about the same time:

1: Suddenly my computer is taking forever to start up.

2: Suddenly VLC is skipping when I play a CD on my computer.

3: Suddenly Firefox is acting like my connection speed is incredibly slow.

Well, and there was a fourth thing too:

4: Suddenly, James made sure all his files are backed up on another machine.

Comments

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

It's still doing the slow "loading your preferences" thing.

I ran a disk defragment because I had not in a while and after it was done, zonealarm kept reinitializing.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

"protection is up, UI is initializing"

[(Anonymous)]

I ran a disk defragment ... after it was done, zonealarm kept reinitializing.

My suspicion of a disk hardware problem just leaped a tall building at a single bound.

-- Ross Smith

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Arg. Wait, but maybe it's under warranty...