Pooter R.I.P?
*whimpers* beloved pooter died last night at 21.20...monitor just went black. Okay it's done that once or twice before- but not for ages-, but after switching off at the plug and re-booting it started up fine. Not last night. Nada, zip, zero. The socket works, cos the monitor stand by light is on and the printer works.
So, after flailing around a bit like medium sized, glasses wearing flailing thing- I did what I usually do and called Brother #1 and between us we hope it's either the power supply or the motherboard. Both of which should be fixable, bearing in mind the pooter is 2002 vintage. Strange, because Brother #2 was just talking to me last Friday about the external drive for huge backup purposes he's bought, and I thought then, yeah, must get me one of those. I just hadn't got round to it. Bugger.
So, I can access LJ and FF.net at work or local library. But how do I access email as I'm not on webmail?
And if the pooter's dead...I'll have to buy a new one....and hope I can retreive stuff off the HD...I'm talking pics, my website and 100's of fics here, people.
I need a really strong cup of tea!