oh christ not again
Jan. 26th, 2013 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardI know these days I only post when I'm having a nervous breakdown or something's gone horribly terribly wrong or in the unlikely event that I have fic. Let us guess what this occasion is! Lemme give you a clue, it's not the latter.
Because it's just been so long since I last had a major computer panic related incident. Because I really missed that feeling of utter panic and going oh god oh god oh god I'm not backed up the past couple days. (I'm backed up to about a week ago, I think, because of my final papers, but everything I was writing for the past couple days isn't backed up, ugh. And that was something I liked! That is the most recent Dust interlude! And my reading notes for 2013, and a bunch of Hobbit fanart, and some audiobooks I haven't gotten 'round to transferring to my iPod yet!
Main computer running tests I don't understand while I sulk on the baby computer. Ugh, ugh, ugh, I hate everything. You're a five-month old computer! You should work! (Granted, that means it's still under warranty, but I'm pretty sure that means AMERICA. And I think all the paperwork is at home anyway.)
(So what's actually happening: it won't start up, or it gets stuck on the start-up screen. The one time I got it through to run whatever it's called, diagnostics or something, it said that there was a problem with external storage? Which makes no sense because there was nothing connected to it at the time of that nature: power cord, ethernet cable, wireless mouse, headphones. That's it. No CDs or DVDs, though I checked anyway because I've been watching my Fringe S1 DVDs and might have left one in. I didn't. Then it wouldn't let me do anything from that page, so I shut it down and tried again a couple more times, and now I think it's running regular diagnostics or something. I don't know, at least it's on. Ugh, ugh, ugh. It's always something with me and computers.)
ETA: MY PRECIOUS. I don't know why I bothered running the diagnostic, the answer is always "run a system restore." This time last year -- well, about several months on from this time last year -- I was, no lie, running system restore every few days. Obviously right now I am backing up the important shit.
Because it's just been so long since I last had a major computer panic related incident. Because I really missed that feeling of utter panic and going oh god oh god oh god I'm not backed up the past couple days. (I'm backed up to about a week ago, I think, because of my final papers, but everything I was writing for the past couple days isn't backed up, ugh. And that was something I liked! That is the most recent Dust interlude! And my reading notes for 2013, and a bunch of Hobbit fanart, and some audiobooks I haven't gotten 'round to transferring to my iPod yet!
Main computer running tests I don't understand while I sulk on the baby computer. Ugh, ugh, ugh, I hate everything. You're a five-month old computer! You should work! (Granted, that means it's still under warranty, but I'm pretty sure that means AMERICA. And I think all the paperwork is at home anyway.)
(So what's actually happening: it won't start up, or it gets stuck on the start-up screen. The one time I got it through to run whatever it's called, diagnostics or something, it said that there was a problem with external storage? Which makes no sense because there was nothing connected to it at the time of that nature: power cord, ethernet cable, wireless mouse, headphones. That's it. No CDs or DVDs, though I checked anyway because I've been watching my Fringe S1 DVDs and might have left one in. I didn't. Then it wouldn't let me do anything from that page, so I shut it down and tried again a couple more times, and now I think it's running regular diagnostics or something. I don't know, at least it's on. Ugh, ugh, ugh. It's always something with me and computers.)
ETA: MY PRECIOUS. I don't know why I bothered running the diagnostic, the answer is always "run a system restore." This time last year -- well, about several months on from this time last year -- I was, no lie, running system restore every few days. Obviously right now I am backing up the important shit.