Well my computer crashed. It’s taken me 2.5 days to get back to a usable state. This included having my laptop pulled to bits and sitting on my desk at work, with the boss saying ‘Ooo, I’ve never seen inside a R51 before’. Good onya AJ. 
Also, as all comptent IT professionals do, not a single backup in sight. The general concensus from IT nerds around me: ‘Backups are for whimps. We live on the edge.’ Yeah, typical late sipping hoons we are.
Also, I’m a bit reluctant to plug my iPod in due to Josh’s experience.
Anyway, some lessons.
1. 12% of free space on the system drive is not that small.
2. A slow running computer is better than a non running computer.
3. Partition manager is good, just don’t ask it to do 10 jobs at once.
4. There are good, free utilities on the web to help you recover data.
5. Having a spare hard drive with a fresh copy of windows installed is a good idea.
6. Having an external caddy is also a good idea. (These investments I made ages ago are coming in handy)
7. Itunes is much better than bigpond music. At least for recovering music licences.
8. Don’t try to reinstall everything around your boss when he wants to see what Vista can do. (‘Would you like to put Vista on your computer Sean?’) VISTA…. No.
9. Office 2007, the jury is out, but it’s looking ok. As soon as I can find my way around and also find a way to disable the ribbon, I might like it
10. When recovering data, don’t forget your three years of emails.
11. Having your Greek text book handy is good when waiting for your computer to copy vast amounts of data (like an hour). Though looking at the blue screen might make more sense.
Here endeth the lesson.
June 20, 2008 at 12:22 pm
iPods are easy to understand, if you understand that your iPod is not permanent storage for your music, a rather it is temporary home for copies of the music you have on your machine.
There are not just good, but fantastic utilities on the web that do everything, aside from maybe a good free operating system.
iTunes is better than anything.
Vista isn’t that bad.
Office 2007 on the other hand, is.
Latte has two ‘t’s in it.
All in my humble opinion of course, aside from the last one, which would be fact.
June 20, 2008 at 12:25 pm
My iPod survived. So that’s fine.
Yes, Itunes is better than anything, though I still have $35 worth of credit at bigpond. (Anyone want to buy it off me)
Vista??? Still to have a good experience.
2007. It’s growing on me.
Yeah, never said I was good at English. Though, I might find Greek even worse.
Yes, be humble.
See ya for pizza.