Unintended hiatus
Well, the day after Christmas, my well-loved Ubuntu machine — originally bought as a MS Windows machine — died. Try as I might, I couldn’t even get the BIOS to boot. Perhaps a stray bit of static when I tried to add some memory? Fortunately, I backed up everything but the few days before Christmas, and even there there was nothing crucial lost.
I’m writing this from within Mac OS X from my new Mac Mini, that I’m about ready to return. (More about that later.) And since the Mac Mini needs USB mouse and keyboard, I bought them. Oh, they’re from Microsoft. Someone is laughing somewhere. (PeaceBang, it had better not be you.)
Until I can get my computing situation under control — and I have bigger fish to fry right now — blogging will be light.
28 December 2006 at 10:31 pm
Hi
Just curious - what do you do for backup? I got an external USB connected hard drive, ran the XP ASR backup program, and put the backup file on external drive. That, plus a floppy generated during backup, plus the XP install disk, should bring me back from the dead if the C drive dies. I hope I never need it.
Best wishes with your computer, and happy new year!
Dudley
29 December 2006 at 12:44 am
CDs. Lots of CDs. Also, I keep my email on the server. All I loose in the latest files and the outbound email, except that I run through my gmail account.
But . . . see the next post
29 December 2006 at 10:49 pm
HOW CAN YOU EVEN THINK THAT I WOULD LAUGH????
29 December 2006 at 11:49 pm
A wry laugh given your own computer woes, perhaps related to the fact I got a Mac after being so Linux gung-ho.