No. 30: Hate... Computers...

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I'm not very good with technology. In fact, I'm a caveman. "Comp-you-tar no work. BANG with rock!" I'm the friggin' grim reaper of electronics, right? I've lost computers to spyware and malware and adware and winter-wear and two computers died from hardware complications. It doesn't have to be my computer, either. God knows, I should never touch anyone's machine, because it's likely it'll die within the week. That's the way it goes.

A big part of the job that I do is Internet correspondence, though. See, if I have a machine that can't get online, it's basically like having half of a machine for me, 'cause SO much of the job I have to do online. It happened recently that the Internet on my recently inherited desktop crashed. I tried to fix it ala rebooting - which then launched it into a vicious cycle of rebooting itself until finally it just didn't turn on again.

But there was hope! The laptop I have, it hasn't been able to connect online since November. A victem of SpyKiller, sad to say. Bu-u-ut, in our recent move, we found the long-lost recovery CD for it. Reformat, Internet alive again. I'm not a dummy, though. I made sure to back-up everything off the machine before running it.

Or so I thought. See, the backup CDs are only readable by one machine in the house - and it's not even the one that burned the disks! And while they're perfectly readable off the disk, they refuse to transfer ANY of the content to that machine, so that I can re-burn to a new CD to put them back on the laptop. Which basically puts me in that very very bad, but well known place of psuedo-losing all my crap.

Sorta'. I mean, with MY track record of computer killing, I've learned to keep all the uber-important stuff - biz stuff, high-res of arts and pages, yadda yadda - on back-ups. Zip disks, actually. I've had trouble with CDs before, too. But the Zip disk - never failed me. That's my baby. So I'm not TOTALLY fucked. Just, ya' know, pretty danged close to it.

I've gotten all my equipment reloaded. The Photoshops and all that stuff. I've gotten most of my arts and documents transferred from earlier backups. I'm just missing a freakin' GIG worth of PSD files related to a current project. Thankfully most of those were for things that were otherwise finished and had the "OK." Still frustrating, though...

And my knee hurts like a mother-... This weekend is a nice BBQ/Halo-fest, though. Haven't had myself a good Halo-ass-kicking in a few months. :XD: But meanwhile, I'm gonna' go break stuff with rocks.

Admired artists, amigos, criminal associates, and persons that have naked photoes of me. :strip:
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Mensaman's avatar
heh, just like a friend of mine, except he made the mistake of leaving a scumbag alone with his computer to look up sites like "uglygirls.com"... *shudder*