I'm going through the long process of getting things set up again after experiencing a significant computer issue.

Once I've confirmed that this has shown up on both journals, I'll follow up later with more details.

When I first move to the lower mainland back in the 80s, I hadn't a friend to my name in my new location. My folks had let me move back in with them to give me a chance to get back on my feet, and Dad took a copy of my resume in to the office to see if he could at least get me some summer work at the Railway. That summer job lasted 31+ years ( Read more... )

This is a follow-up to my post the other day where I mentioned that I was going to order some new hard drives to replace the one that was generating errors in my mirror. What I didn't show in that picture was that my boot drive was running at at about 95% capacity, and had been for the past couple of years. I would clean it up and get it down under ( Read more... )

Well, this is sub-optimal.

This is why I have mirrored drives. I've ordered a couple of replacements that I will pick up today or tomorrow. These are 10-year-old drives, and if one is failing, the other probably isn't that far behind. It could last another decade, or it could go next week. When atara's drives failed, they went in rapid succession and ( Read more... )

I didn't think my monitor was going to break out of its power-up cycle this morning. It blinked off and on for almost five minutes before it finally switched to an epilepsy-inducing flicker and settled down. Once it has come out of sleep and settled down it looks great, but it takes longer to fix itself each time it comes out of stand-by, and I ( Read more... )

Literally ( Read more... )

I read something on Reddit this evening that gave me a flashback to the time when I decided that I was no longer going to help build computer for anyone other than immediate friends and family members ( Read more... )

My first hint of a problem was when I tried to save an image to Rarity and Windows politely informed me that the drive did not exist. Yes, my various drives are named after ponies ( Read more... )

I've had "update LJ/DW" on my to-do list since the start of July, but I am both busy and lazy ( Read more... )

I was not doing anything unusual this evening - in this case sitting back holding a cat on my chest with my feet resting on top of my computer case while I watched a video.

About midway through the Video,
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