I Did it AGAIN
Oct. 15th, 2012 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseYes, that's right, I did it again. I killed yet another computer. Yes, I REALLY AM THAT AWESOME.
To be fair, the Toshiba that I insisted Shawn buy for me (I liked the way the keys clacked, okay? It sounded RIGHT) was a peice of crap from the start. A smarter person would have turned around and replaced it when it randomly started dumping memory. Me, I just figured out a work around which kept me going until the warranty at the store wore out. Luckily, on Sunday, when it stopped working entirely, I called the Toshiba help line directly and the nice lady there agreed after having me try several things that the machine was, in point of fact, kaput, and I would be granted the boon of returning it to the manufacturer for repair or replacement free of charge. I will have to pay for shipping, but frankly, that's nothing compared to the cost of a brand new laptop.
The other awesome thing is that, after "The Turkey Incident" my wiser-than-me friends turned me on to a year free with CrashPlan, which was very helpfully backing my entire system up every fifteen minutes. So I lost exactly no data --provided I can figure out how to retrieve it when the time comes. (But, I'm going assume that someone will help me figure that out, if nothing else, someone on a help desk somewhere.) In the meantime I don't think there's much I need to access, though I may try to figure out if I can download my supervillain romance thing to work on today.
The other good thing is that we have a spare laptop. It's much older and is superloaded with games, but, ta-dah!, it works in a pinch. If I were actually on deadline for something, I would feel pretty f*cking smug right now. As it is, all I can think is, oh, thank GOD all my fan fic is saved. *snort*
I think, in fact, I may go and see if I can retreive a single file from CrashPlan. I'll let you know how that goes for me!
To be fair, the Toshiba that I insisted Shawn buy for me (I liked the way the keys clacked, okay? It sounded RIGHT) was a peice of crap from the start. A smarter person would have turned around and replaced it when it randomly started dumping memory. Me, I just figured out a work around which kept me going until the warranty at the store wore out. Luckily, on Sunday, when it stopped working entirely, I called the Toshiba help line directly and the nice lady there agreed after having me try several things that the machine was, in point of fact, kaput, and I would be granted the boon of returning it to the manufacturer for repair or replacement free of charge. I will have to pay for shipping, but frankly, that's nothing compared to the cost of a brand new laptop.
The other awesome thing is that, after "The Turkey Incident" my wiser-than-me friends turned me on to a year free with CrashPlan, which was very helpfully backing my entire system up every fifteen minutes. So I lost exactly no data --provided I can figure out how to retrieve it when the time comes. (But, I'm going assume that someone will help me figure that out, if nothing else, someone on a help desk somewhere.) In the meantime I don't think there's much I need to access, though I may try to figure out if I can download my supervillain romance thing to work on today.
The other good thing is that we have a spare laptop. It's much older and is superloaded with games, but, ta-dah!, it works in a pinch. If I were actually on deadline for something, I would feel pretty f*cking smug right now. As it is, all I can think is, oh, thank GOD all my fan fic is saved. *snort*
I think, in fact, I may go and see if I can retreive a single file from CrashPlan. I'll let you know how that goes for me!