So the new year is already happing some where on the planet as I type this....
It's all a bit scary in just how big the world is that some folks already have their forts sore heads of 2011!
So I am lucky that we have been invited to see the new year in with some friends, which has always got to be better than being on your own.
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31 December, 2010
25 January, 2009
Backup & Why I use them
So start of new year, well a couple of days now into the new year and the USB HD that is about 18 months old has well, how do I put this died, it started with a noise like a machine gun when starting up, the noise would then go away and all was well, until the day that I when to look at the root directory where I keep such files as my current book, yes that one on Dirk Maggs, that has now been stuck in edit hell since June 2008.
When I looked at the root directory what was there was one item and not the several thousand that I have come to expect.
But for some strange reason when looking at the drive in Thumbs plus and Pisca all my pictures where there!, so I copied them to another HD.
It was at this stage that a sale at PC World caught my eye and so the end result is that I have a new cheap computer that some how or other seems to run Vista, with only 1G of memory!
I have since found out that if I put a fast 4G USB key in it will use it as memory and boost the speed of the machine, this I have done.
Reinstalling stuff from backups is fun, so I have all my data but a lot of programmes that do not run very well on vista, so most of my time has been spent looking for free ware versions of the old programs that I used to use.
I mean, some of the software I use goes back to 2002!
So the good news is I have all my projects data and I mostly have software that can do the job the old software that no longer runs on Vista.
But my Dirk Maggs book is still stuck in edit hell!
When I looked at the root directory what was there was one item and not the several thousand that I have come to expect.
But for some strange reason when looking at the drive in Thumbs plus and Pisca all my pictures where there!, so I copied them to another HD.
It was at this stage that a sale at PC World caught my eye and so the end result is that I have a new cheap computer that some how or other seems to run Vista, with only 1G of memory!
I have since found out that if I put a fast 4G USB key in it will use it as memory and boost the speed of the machine, this I have done.
Reinstalling stuff from backups is fun, so I have all my data but a lot of programmes that do not run very well on vista, so most of my time has been spent looking for free ware versions of the old programs that I used to use.
I mean, some of the software I use goes back to 2002!
So the good news is I have all my projects data and I mostly have software that can do the job the old software that no longer runs on Vista.
But my Dirk Maggs book is still stuck in edit hell!
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