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I didn't know how tenderly I felt towards this piece of electronics until I had to part from it.
My laptop -- Magri's it's name -- caught a bad virus on Monday night. It started shooting up pop-ups screaming at me that it was full of viruses and needed me to download a fix. I've gotten wacky pop-ups similar before, and shutting them down and running my real anti-virus dealt with them -- but this one prevented me from using my anti-virus or pretty much anything else that was tried. It wouldn't even allow control-alt-delete to access the Task Manager.
cyrenasea with mad awesome resources, took Magri to a coworker who fixed it up, better than new, in less time and for exactly half the price that MicroCenter was going to ask for the same repair. I had -- by sheer lucky coincidence -- backed up all my documents that same day before the virus struck, but I've got dozens of purely random bookmarks saved on my webbrowser, and I would have been very disappointed to have lost them all. Someday I will go through all of them... one day...
I'll note that the laptop is named after the character Magri White from Carla Speed McNeil's comics series "Finder":
http://www.findercomics.com/characters/characters/221-2/
Reason being that I had just read that series when I got the laptop, and Magri White is something like a computer, hosting a sort of mmorg inside his head and having wireless antennae in place of hair. When I gave it the name, though, I had the thought that it might not be a wholly auspicious name, since in his storyline Magri is harassed by something very much like a malicious viral program, loses his hair, and finally has a full nervous breakdown and is never quite the same. Last spring laptop-Magri mysteriously lost wireless connectivity for over a week and just as mysteriously regained it. This spring, it's the malicious invader. I hope that doesn't mean next spring the Blue Screen of Death is fated. But even so, I got Magri in October of 2008 and he's been serving me faithfully since then, despite the fact that I broke his little lid-latching-closures through accident during a move spring of 2009 -- so I'm pretty satisfied. Still, I think I'll name my next laptop after someone a little tougher.
My laptop -- Magri's it's name -- caught a bad virus on Monday night. It started shooting up pop-ups screaming at me that it was full of viruses and needed me to download a fix. I've gotten wacky pop-ups similar before, and shutting them down and running my real anti-virus dealt with them -- but this one prevented me from using my anti-virus or pretty much anything else that was tried. It wouldn't even allow control-alt-delete to access the Task Manager.
cyrenasea with mad awesome resources, took Magri to a coworker who fixed it up, better than new, in less time and for exactly half the price that MicroCenter was going to ask for the same repair. I had -- by sheer lucky coincidence -- backed up all my documents that same day before the virus struck, but I've got dozens of purely random bookmarks saved on my webbrowser, and I would have been very disappointed to have lost them all. Someday I will go through all of them... one day...
I'll note that the laptop is named after the character Magri White from Carla Speed McNeil's comics series "Finder":
http://www.findercomics.com/characters/characters/221-2/
Reason being that I had just read that series when I got the laptop, and Magri White is something like a computer, hosting a sort of mmorg inside his head and having wireless antennae in place of hair. When I gave it the name, though, I had the thought that it might not be a wholly auspicious name, since in his storyline Magri is harassed by something very much like a malicious viral program, loses his hair, and finally has a full nervous breakdown and is never quite the same. Last spring laptop-Magri mysteriously lost wireless connectivity for over a week and just as mysteriously regained it. This spring, it's the malicious invader. I hope that doesn't mean next spring the Blue Screen of Death is fated. But even so, I got Magri in October of 2008 and he's been serving me faithfully since then, despite the fact that I broke his little lid-latching-closures through accident during a move spring of 2009 -- so I'm pretty satisfied. Still, I think I'll name my next laptop after someone a little tougher.