Well, I guess I did [computers]
Jan. 12th, 2022 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterBought a new Linux laptop machine, which is probably going to take about a week to arrive. Neither cheap nor exorbitantly expensive; hopefully I can get a solid decade out of it. Yeah, right. Two years ago I sent the dead Fruit computer to a computer repair shop in NYC, which fixed some bad soldering on the logic board for ~$350; I'm tempted to send the machine back to them again, but that can wait.
The semester is starting in 1.5 weeks, so I'd like to have a functional setup going so I can get ready without being too stressed out and scrambling. Today was supposed to be a day of putting together the schedule for Animal Phys, but that definitely didn't happen, although I at least got some work done on my calendar.
My work desktop computer is pretty great, so it will likely return to being my main work machine, but I'd really prefer to not put too many personal files on it.
It's occasionally good to think about how I'd feel if everything burned up in a fire (or drowned in a flood). I've been putting meaningful photos on Flickr for years, now, and annotating them there. I could pick up the pieces for the courses I teach, if I had to. It would be a nontrivial amount of work, but not impossible. I should do another recipe update to my website. I did put copies of all the music files I own onto my work computer. Fruit Company likes to act as if it owns those. Research data are all backed up.
It's going to take me a little while to sort out computers now. I hate all of this toggling between devices. I also ordered a case for the failed laptop's hard drive so I can get files off it. I'd backed up to an external hard drive at home, right before I left to travel, so there have only been a small number of relatively inconsequential changes since then. I guess tomorrow I'll haul in the backup drive and shuffle contents back over to the work desktop.
Bleah.
The semester is starting in 1.5 weeks, so I'd like to have a functional setup going so I can get ready without being too stressed out and scrambling. Today was supposed to be a day of putting together the schedule for Animal Phys, but that definitely didn't happen, although I at least got some work done on my calendar.
My work desktop computer is pretty great, so it will likely return to being my main work machine, but I'd really prefer to not put too many personal files on it.
It's occasionally good to think about how I'd feel if everything burned up in a fire (or drowned in a flood). I've been putting meaningful photos on Flickr for years, now, and annotating them there. I could pick up the pieces for the courses I teach, if I had to. It would be a nontrivial amount of work, but not impossible. I should do another recipe update to my website. I did put copies of all the music files I own onto my work computer. Fruit Company likes to act as if it owns those. Research data are all backed up.
It's going to take me a little while to sort out computers now. I hate all of this toggling between devices. I also ordered a case for the failed laptop's hard drive so I can get files off it. I'd backed up to an external hard drive at home, right before I left to travel, so there have only been a small number of relatively inconsequential changes since then. I guess tomorrow I'll haul in the backup drive and shuffle contents back over to the work desktop.
Bleah.
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Date: 2022-01-12 09:19 pm (UTC)Yay new laptop!
Some years ago now, a nice lady at Google infuriated all the RAID vendors by pointing out (with vast and definitive statistical backing) that how you did backups was irrelevant, the thing that mattered was the number of copies and it's not a copy until all of medium, power supply, and enclosure are different.
So "the external drive" is fine if it's one of the three copies; if it's one of the two copies I experience concern.
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Date: 2022-01-13 01:54 am (UTC)gotomypc(.com) or similar free things and just connecting to the work machine might be helpful. Hopefully it has some kind of backups going too.
Still think you should adopt the OSX 10.1 PowerBook G3 and run with it but there are some Panther disks to get it up to 10.3 too. It's retro fab.
On fixing the fruit machine you have, it is often useful to have a spare. One option is to get a known working mother board off the flea bay and transplant brains but that's only if you enjoy computer surgery. But make sure it isn't just a low battery and failed power adapter first.
Sorry, random brain dumpings and nonsense.
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Date: 2022-01-13 07:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-14 12:38 am (UTC)My non-fruit laptop decided recently that my external back up drive is actually an internal drive, somehow, so it won’t let me use it for backups. I tried yelling all of the standard expletives, made a couple of threats, and even made uncouth suggestions about it being the unlikely progeny of a Betamax and a pop-up toaster. Alas, No Siri to voice any indignation.
So much for my computer troubleshooting skills.