Tag: computer

…whether computers are actually literally magical.  As in, there’s a set of spells that activate them, only they don’t tell you what the spells are, so you have to kind of guess and bang on the keys until the magic thinky box decides to relent and let you do what you want.  Which I wouldn’t mind, if only I could find out what kind of rum the computer imps like. Or scotch. Or tequila. Whatever it is, dudes, I’d get you a bottle, no worries.

Seriously. I’m afraid to move until this file transfer is over*.  What if my personal bioelectric field is acting as the critical component here? I just don’t know. I JUST DON’T KNOW.

Continue reading There are days when I wonder…

Which is good; it distracted me from immigration strategizing stupidity.  Anyhow, finally got the old computer configured as the kid’s new computer and got the video editing software installed on the new computer. The latter was much easier than the former: the former was largely an exercise in doing the exact same thing six times in a row, until it inexplicably decides to finally work.  It makes me wonder whether there’s normally a secret chant involved, or perhaps a spirit that needed to be placated.

:pause:

Oh, like you haven’t wondered that yourself, sometimes.

Which is using my wife’s old monitor, because for some unaccountable reason my current monitor won’t work on this one. No matter: if that’s the worst problem I have I’m not going to have any real problems with the switchover. But I am right now DOWNLOADING ALL THE THINGS, so I’ll catch up with the rest of you later.

I’m debating whether or not to do something cheesy, like take a snapshot of gameplay from a videogame on the old machine and then take a screenshot of gameplay on the new one. Why, I’m not entirely certain.  Just because it’s something to do, apparently.

Mind you, I’m still half-expecting the snow to mess everything up.  Like it does.

I turned it on by reflex, and it booted up fine.  With no visible reason as to why it wasn’t working before. Just sitting there, humming.

…You know something?  I don’t care.  The important thing is running the backup drive RIGHT NOW.

On the advice* of my wife I took the blessed thing to a local computer guy, who promptly determined that the power supply was busted and needed a new one. Thanks to the coupon that my wife also found and printed out for me, it’ll even cost less than a hundred bucks and I’ll get it back this afternoon. If all goes well, I’m back on track for the Kindle purchase.

Moral of the story? Marry well.

Moe Lane

*No, not instruction. My wife never tells me what to do. I’m just not stupid.

…posting will be extremely light until I work this out.  I suspect that I am in a situation where it will be cheaper to yank the hard drive for the files and replace the computer; there was a certain *smell* last night.

Moe Lane

PS: if you were thinking of buying something off of Amazon and using my site, this would be a great time to do that.

Having somehow managing to completely muck up my desktop in the process of trying to remove some particularly nasty malware, I have finally been told that the blessed replacement is shipping.  So… just as soon as I get it I can stop with this ad hoc, jury-rigged back-and-forth between the laptop and the netbook.  Of course, I’m going to need to get all of my stored files – both the creative writing material and the game saves – out of the hard drive without infecting my new system, but one step at a time.

I should also probably buy both an external hard drive for the computer, and an external CD-ROM drive for the netbook.  Suggestions?

Moe Lane

PS: I also look forward to playing Dragon Age: Origins on a system that does not render it as being one step above stop-motion animation.