Updaty goodness
*look at LJ*
*tries to remember password*
Did you know computers can die of neglect? It's true. When I got home from the Georgia road trip, my computer started acting all squirrely. Not wanting to boot and such. No problem. Fixed it.
Two days latter.... my computer, my beloved frankenstein with no original parts left of the Dell from 1993, dies the final death from which there is no recovery. Mobo... dead. Main hard drive... dead. No apparent cause. I am firmly convinced that a whole week of me not touching it at all caused it to pine away, sapping its strength until it no longer had the will to... um... compute.
My computer is dead.
Long live my computer.
I'm enjoying her replacement, which has a much much better processor. Went from 450mHz to 2.66gHz. Yay! Needs more memory though, but at the price they had for the factory upgrade is half of what I could get RAM for at the nearby office store. Now it's just a matter of actually having more money. heh.
Pulled the two auxiliary hard drives out of the old one and mirrored them onot the new computer. This makes me happy that I keep all my important data (except my books-read database, dammit!) on a redundant device. And then all the install zips for nearly everything I'd installed on a different device.
Losses: minimal. Except my stupid book database. Dammit.
For those of you who know about it, the new job is starting to pick up nicely. I'm still working at Wal*Mart, but now I'm doing part time techy stuff for a small ISP startup in a nearby town. I've been doing service calls, setting up folks' email and such, and I'm taking over the company website immediately. I'll post a link when I have something there that's actually mine.
And I'm plaing a new fun game. Got into the user system, made myself an account and gave myself full administrative privvies. Which is great fun, yes, but the game is waiting to see how long it takes the boss to notice what I've done.
*tries to remember password*
Did you know computers can die of neglect? It's true. When I got home from the Georgia road trip, my computer started acting all squirrely. Not wanting to boot and such. No problem. Fixed it.
Two days latter.... my computer, my beloved frankenstein with no original parts left of the Dell from 1993, dies the final death from which there is no recovery. Mobo... dead. Main hard drive... dead. No apparent cause. I am firmly convinced that a whole week of me not touching it at all caused it to pine away, sapping its strength until it no longer had the will to... um... compute.
My computer is dead.
Long live my computer.
I'm enjoying her replacement, which has a much much better processor. Went from 450mHz to 2.66gHz. Yay! Needs more memory though, but at the price they had for the factory upgrade is half of what I could get RAM for at the nearby office store. Now it's just a matter of actually having more money. heh.
Pulled the two auxiliary hard drives out of the old one and mirrored them onot the new computer. This makes me happy that I keep all my important data (except my books-read database, dammit!) on a redundant device. And then all the install zips for nearly everything I'd installed on a different device.
Losses: minimal. Except my stupid book database. Dammit.
For those of you who know about it, the new job is starting to pick up nicely. I'm still working at Wal*Mart, but now I'm doing part time techy stuff for a small ISP startup in a nearby town. I've been doing service calls, setting up folks' email and such, and I'm taking over the company website immediately. I'll post a link when I have something there that's actually mine.
And I'm plaing a new fun game. Got into the user system, made myself an account and gave myself full administrative privvies. Which is great fun, yes, but the game is waiting to see how long it takes the boss to notice what I've done.