As I type this I have a minor case of sniffles happening--one of those annoying lightly runny noses that don't come with any other symptoms, but still encourage one to take frequent hot showers (much nicer to blow the nose there, than using a cloth or paper tissue and abrading the skin) and naps. This started this morning, occasionally punctuated ( Read more... )

I got up a little later than I might normally have done this morning, due to staying up too late typing too long of a post for LJ (apologies for only putting in one cut--that one I put in as a typed, but no other category to be cut occurred to me as I typed, and once I was done I was too tired to consider where one should go). Therefore, as I ( Read more... )

Today's progress report ( Read more... )

I checked it at home first, and it worked. Backed up recently changed files, just in case. Tried it again at uni, but without plugging in the second monitor, and it is working. I want the second monitor attached--so many work tasks are easier with two screens to play with, but I'm kind of afraid to, for fear the notebook monitor will cease to ( Read more... )

I just sent the following note to my boss. Thought I'd also post it here, on the off chance that someone knows something about this sort of computer problem and what I should do about it. Though how I will see replies if the computer isn't working tomorrow, I don't know ( Read more... )

I finally managed to get back on line today, now to see if I can remember what I've been up to while off line ( Read more... )

Before we came out for this short course we had an e-mail providing the urls for a variety of free programs we needed to download in order to do the practical sessions. One of the programs comes with a warning when you install it that there are many, many, many sub programs which could be downloaded, and to save space one might wish to pick and ( Read more... )

Around 6:30 this evening I determined that I need a better computer--one which doesn't freeze up when one has open 12+ files in 7+ different programs. So I managed to get the computer shut down (took a while) and went for a walk. When I returned I discovered that the problem wasn't *only* the level of multi-tasking I'd asked of the poor machine, ( Read more... )

Bad computer, no biscuit ( Read more... )

or a better computer ( Read more... )