I think the heatwave is responsible. Lots of folks have had meltdowns lately. Heck, in my house, both laptops, the main computer and the PDA all failed within a couple of days last month. The only thing that didn't die was the lab computer (which was off the entire time).

The next computer is going to have a RAID1 array.

Also, you can pull the recent stuff back off the server and onto the computer.