seriously. am i awake?

[seperis]

My morning so far:

chopchica: hey, i bet, deep down in your sould (or possibly right on top), you are still VERY BITTER about the burrito!
chopchica: not to mention the part where i basically trained you to become an expert in dragon rape!
seperis: I am not yet an expert in dragon rape.
chopchica: but you will be! especially after you write the definitive story!
chopchica: where rodney

Comments

[ratcreature]

You put your hard drive into the freezer? Why??

[seperis]

...well. Okay. All my media is on it and I thought it was dying and I needed it, so I read that freezer == good! And so did my professor. And then I found out it was just the internal power, which is fixable. And now I have a hard drive that I don't want to defrost quite yet.

I make things complex sometimes.

[ratcreature]

This reminds me that I ought to make backups more often. I mean, I try to have everything important on two hard disks and one DVD backup just in case, with everything else at least on either two hard disks or one hard disk and one DVD backup, but I'm not always diligent and current with my backups. I think it is because in my decades of using computers I have never had a hard disk die on me. It makes me complacent.

[seperis]

I've had a few die, but I"m still lazy. *G* That's why I bought two, one of which is specifically so convenient and small that I can't make up any excuses why not to use it.

[ratcreature]

The only time I ever lost data on a hard disk was when I had a dual boot system with Windows 95 and Linux, and Windows couldn't handle sharing, and completely messed up the MBR one day. Physically the hard disk was fine and still worked for years after reformatting, just none of the data was recoverable by any means I had. I stopped using Windows after that.

[seperis]

I keep thinking I'll switch, especially considering that just looking at Vista makes me tense. OTOH, I probably won't have a lot of time or motivation until I get to that subject in school, so--hopefully I'll avoid Vista altogether.

[ratcreature]

Well, Linux has it's own set of problems, like sometimes it's hard to get hardware to work, because vendors don't give access to info for drivers and stuff, but for me it mostly came down to Linux being so much cheaper and somewhat less of a hassle with the security. I don't need any special programs, and I just can't justify paying anything software if I can get what I need for free. Also it is kind of satisfying that you don't get inexplicable error codes but with determination and a bunch of how-to files can usually fix errors and find out what caused your problems. I like that kind of order and predictablity.