Intimations of mortality
Aug. 9th, 2018 11:15 amThe previous post was written on my little notebook at the kitchen table, because in a fit of seasonally inappropriate cooking, I had a sequence of things going into / coming out of the oven, so I didn't want to be three floors away from the kitchen. I completed the post, I checked the webmail, I moved the mouse to close something down - and the screen went blank. I tried restarting it, I tried ALT-CTRL-DELETE, I tried walking away and coming back to it. Nothing.
This morning, thinking that the battery might have died (I had seen, when I turned it on, that the battery was low) although it hadn't given the usual warning of that, I plugged it in. The screen flashed up a pair of battery icons, and then went dark again.
Oh, dear. This isn't an absolute disaster: no data, no work in progress is ever stored on the notebook. I use it for DW, for webmail, and to back up and view photographs when I am away from home. And it is, as these things are reckoned, not new: it isn't all that old, either, but the life of electronic devices is as that of mayflies.
Still, I felt bereft, not least because I wil be away for a long weekend next week. It's a family event, I don't anticipate spending much of it online, but I don't wish to be entirely cut off, either.
The good news is that![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
durham_rambler has just brought me a cup of coffee and the information that he had tried switching my notebook on in safe mode, and it had responded to the master's touch by coming on as normal (looking, no doubt, as if butter wouldn't melt in its mouth). Disaster averted - for the time being.
This morning, thinking that the battery might have died (I had seen, when I turned it on, that the battery was low) although it hadn't given the usual warning of that, I plugged it in. The screen flashed up a pair of battery icons, and then went dark again.
Oh, dear. This isn't an absolute disaster: no data, no work in progress is ever stored on the notebook. I use it for DW, for webmail, and to back up and view photographs when I am away from home. And it is, as these things are reckoned, not new: it isn't all that old, either, but the life of electronic devices is as that of mayflies.
Still, I felt bereft, not least because I wil be away for a long weekend next week. It's a family event, I don't anticipate spending much of it online, but I don't wish to be entirely cut off, either.
The good news is that
durham_rambler has just brought me a cup of coffee and the information that he had tried switching my notebook on in safe mode, and it had responded to the master's touch by coming on as normal (looking, no doubt, as if butter wouldn't melt in its mouth). Disaster averted - for the time being.
