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shewhomustWe've had a busy week. They seem to alternate: a quiet week followed by a busy week, followed by... I planned to write about it here - clear some odds and ends of work, make some progress with outstanding tasks, and then write my diary.
So much for plans: since I was anticipating a week without interruptions, my computer has taken the opportunity to fall over. Badly.
Yes, this is the new computer. It has always been pernickety, a little prone to shut down abruptly, complaining about an unidentified device driver, or demanding an update for Mozilla.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
durham_rambler pokes about a bit, sees nothing wrong, suggests I carry on, and all is well until next time. Only not this time. Perhaps it didn't like being asked to work on a bank holiday?
So whiledurham_rambler has one last attempt to fix it, or at least rescue some files before returning it to base, I am exiled to the laptop and the kitchen table, an unfamiliar keyboard and mouse, and demands at every turn for passwords I've long since forgotten.
If we're in for the long haul, I suppose I can use my previous machine - in the mean time, I'm about to plunge`into the network and see if I can find last Wednesday's photos ondurham_rambler's machine: if I'm not back by dinner time, send a search party!
So much for plans: since I was anticipating a week without interruptions, my computer has taken the opportunity to fall over. Badly.
Yes, this is the new computer. It has always been pernickety, a little prone to shut down abruptly, complaining about an unidentified device driver, or demanding an update for Mozilla.
durham_rambler pokes about a bit, sees nothing wrong, suggests I carry on, and all is well until next time. Only not this time. Perhaps it didn't like being asked to work on a bank holiday?So while
durham_rambler has one last attempt to fix it, or at least rescue some files before returning it to base, I am exiled to the laptop and the kitchen table, an unfamiliar keyboard and mouse, and demands at every turn for passwords I've long since forgotten.If we're in for the long haul, I suppose I can use my previous machine - in the mean time, I'm about to plunge`into the network and see if I can find last Wednesday's photos on
durham_rambler's machine: if I'm not back by dinner time, send a search party!
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Date: 2006-05-29 04:30 pm (UTC)I'll come down to Durham and join the search party. Only on the promise of dinner, obviously.
But - how shall we tell the dancer from the dance? Is it the computer (which you blame, exclusively) or is it the software (which of course I want to blame, exclusively)? Divvy off a chunk of disk and run a Linux installation, that's what I'd do, see how that copes with the hardware; if you still have problems, then yup, it's the computer that's sick. If not - well, dump Windows where it deserves, and welcome to the free world...
And, of course, if you have a whole different range of problems - as of course I've had, ever since I tried to install Linux on my new computer - then welcome to the Tux-world. Sigh. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Tho' black pudding with egg-and-apple and pepperonata is very good...
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Date: 2006-05-30 08:45 am (UTC)For the rest, I reject your Cartesian dualism: Morgan-the-computer has failed me, and I care not whether it has failed in mind or body. Now back with David-the-previous-computer, hoping that Morgan will prove amenable to treatment and I will be able to retrieve the files created in the interim...
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Date: 2006-05-30 10:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-30 01:35 pm (UTC)Mike Jecks says, is it time to switch to Mac?
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Date: 2006-05-30 04:16 pm (UTC)Honey, I did understand you, but I was bringing a little necessary refinement to the argument; Descartes didn't live in a bodyswapping world where even the soul could be re-engineered or replaced. Manichaean dualism, on the other hand, holds true for all values of this-and-that; it's binary, which means it's core. Descartes is experiential.
But I hold with Peter Wimsey on all philosophical discussion: it is a closed book to me, in this case one that I have slammed shut and am willing to sit on to keep it that way.
Mike Jecks, on the other hand - tho' a sweetie - can be dispensed with in moments. No, it is not time to switch to Mac. Now that they're putting PC chips in 'em - now that they've recognised the weakness of the original argument, in other words - it is time for all deluded Mac users to come to us. OS X is Linux-based anyway, so they're halfway here already...