a Time of Technological Transition
First, I'm not complaining. :-)
Dear old Big Bit, my desktop which I have had for a long time - it was built for me by a local mom-and-pop store back when Windows 7 was relatively new - has finally crashed completely. I've had it for so long that I can't remember when I bought it, and it has served me well for a number of years. I bought myself a new computer sometime last fall, but I wanted to make sure I copied everything off of Big Bit before I swapped in the new one. Which I'm pretty sure I finished up last week.
If not, I'm sure I can take it somewhere and have them download everything on all three internal hard drives.
I was going to set up the new (as yet unnamed) computer today, but we went shopping for ingredients to make goose sandwiches from the leftover Christmas goose, and I got tired, lol. So I set up little Speed Racer, a laptop I usually only use when I travel, and managed to watch the Guardian rewatch this afternoon which was SO MUCH FUN.
Except - Speed Racer had trouble handling the video or something - it usually works quite well, but it was lagging in terms of typing and posting comments to the chat. It was so slow that I couldn't proofread for typos before I posted ... so at one point I typed (and posted) shipping when I meant whipping. As one of my delightful interlocutors observed, that might have been a Freudian slip!
Hoping to have the new computer set up (and named!) sometime tomorrow.
Dear old Big Bit, my desktop which I have had for a long time - it was built for me by a local mom-and-pop store back when Windows 7 was relatively new - has finally crashed completely. I've had it for so long that I can't remember when I bought it, and it has served me well for a number of years. I bought myself a new computer sometime last fall, but I wanted to make sure I copied everything off of Big Bit before I swapped in the new one. Which I'm pretty sure I finished up last week.
If not, I'm sure I can take it somewhere and have them download everything on all three internal hard drives.
I was going to set up the new (as yet unnamed) computer today, but we went shopping for ingredients to make goose sandwiches from the leftover Christmas goose, and I got tired, lol. So I set up little Speed Racer, a laptop I usually only use when I travel, and managed to watch the Guardian rewatch this afternoon which was SO MUCH FUN.
Except - Speed Racer had trouble handling the video or something - it usually works quite well, but it was lagging in terms of typing and posting comments to the chat. It was so slow that I couldn't proofread for typos before I posted ... so at one point I typed (and posted) shipping when I meant whipping. As one of my delightful interlocutors observed, that might have been a Freudian slip!
Hoping to have the new computer set up (and named!) sometime tomorrow.