aeb, posts by tag: computer - LiveJournal

Maybe three weekends ago, my computer suddenly started having a lot of trouble turning on. I took it into The Computer Store in the middle of the next week. They took over a week to get back to me. It turns out that my computer is expensive enough to fix, it felt like a toss-up between repairing and replacing. I decided to replace it. I placed the order with The Computer Store yesterday. Carol, one of the owners, estimates it will be ready in a week to a week and a half as of yesterday. {cross fingers, Smile}

In other news, she has a family bible her daughter wants to have re-bound. I told her I'm not in good enough practice to rebind something with as much sentimental value as a family bible, but I offered to look it over and tell her what could be safely done, and how satisfactory it might be. After I hung up, I realized there are a few mends I could do even on a family bible... but if it really needs rebinding, it needs a far more practiced binder. Alternately, if the paper is going fragile with acid, binding will actually shorten it's life; she'd be better off wrapping it in acid free paper or cardboard, and using it on special occasions. So we'll see what happens. {Smile}

In the meantime, I'm borrowing Dad's computer. A lot. I'm sure he'll be extremely happy when I get my new one, so he can have more access to his again. {Smile}

Anne Elizabeth Baldwin

Well, my computer finally came home yesterday with a new motherboard. It seems to be working so far. I certainly hope that continues, but it's hard to quite trust it after all the trouble I've had. {lop-sided Smile}

Now the loaner is in the shop, getting any viruses I picked up removed, virus protection installed, and hopefully the sound repaired. My parents want for a third/game/back-up computer. {Smile}

I just hope things return to normal soon here. {Smile}

Anne Elizabeth Baldwin

Well, we picked up a loaner computer from The Computer Store late Monday afternoon. It's old, and it doesn't have my files on it; I decided not to ask for that after all. However, I can surf the net and play games without worrying that Dad will want or need it. That is such a huge relief. Borrowing his computer for a week isn't too bad, but it should be more like a month this time. That's too long for two heavy computer users to share one machine. {Smile}

Anne Elizabeth Baldwin

{peek in} Sorry to become spotty at replying so soon after I delurked. {apologetic smile}

As I mentioned to some of you in email, last week Monday (a week and a half or so) we had a bad power failure in our part of town. It started with lights going on and off and on like someone was playing with the light switch. I assumed that’s what was happening, so I took a while to turn off my computer, modem, and battery backup. After that it didn’t work right, so Dad and I took my computer in to The Computer Store Wednesday morning. We got it back Saturday with the tech’s assurances that it worked great for her. She said if I still had trouble, try plugging it straight into the wall, because it might be the battery backup. She was right. The problem was the battery backup. I bought a new one Monday, Dad installed it Tuesday, and I took my time moving things back. I just wasn’t in a mood to rush.

While my computer wasn’t working, Dad let me use his. However, that’s never quite as efficient as using my own, so I kind of fell behind in my reading and responding everywhere except in email. I think I just caught up with the three places I’m currently trying to read to keep up with my friends beyond email, including my friends’ blogs and LiveJournal, and at least one usenet newsgroup (alt.books.m-lackey, which isn’t quite totally inactive).

Anyway, I hope I’ll be better at keeping up now that I’m back on my own computer. {Smile}

Anne Elizabeth Baldwin

I think my computer keyboard just died. I hope so. I just spent the whole evening trying to a) figure out what was wrong, and B) back up my computer when one file in My Files was entirely too big. {bite lips}

If I disappear for several days, it might have been something more complicated than the keyboard. Wish me luck. {lop-sided smile}

Anne Elizabeth Baldwin

I have had over half a dozen attacks on my computer while web surfing in the past week or two. A little rectangle from Norton Security - my antivirus - pops up in the corner saying my computer has been attacked, or that it has successfully repelled an attack by some virus. At least two viruses were involved, one "trojan.???", and one I forget at the moment. However, "successfully repelled" seems to be premature, since two-three attacks often follow in quick succession. {half-smile}

I have been following advice I vaguely remember hearing on the news: get off the computer for a couple of hours. However, I'm not sure that's the right thing to do. {pause}

What is the right thing to do? I really would like to know. Some of you are distinctly more computer-savvy than I am. {Smile}

Thanks, Anne Elizabeth Baldwin

The Computer Store replaced the hard disk on my computer. It was only two months old when it died. Fortunately, most of my data was still on my old computer, which has become the game computer. That included most of my stories. Most of the rest I'd already posted to my journal, so I can copy them back from there. There was only story that I'd revised recently but I hadn't posted yet. However, I'd given a copy to a friend. I picked that story up today. I plan to copy it into multiple computers real soon. Then I'll give her the paper copy back. I nearly lost a friend's email address and a picture, but I did have one copy left of each. I have already made more copies of those. {Smile} I'm missing just over a months' worth of email, but I have the past month's, and the older stuff. {sigh} All in all, I'm surprised I didn't lose something more important. {worn smile}

Anyway, they replaced the hard drive, and loaded what I had in the game computer. My computer came back home just over 24 hours ago. As per instructions, they hadn't fixed up my internet providers. After panicking when I realized how much more I had to do than I'd realized, I got that fixed yesterday morning (Thursday). That was tiring enough, I rested for the rest of the day. I didn't feel up to writing about this until I'd picked up the lost revision and brought it home. That's when I felt like I was really back.{Smile}

Anne Elizabeth Baldwin