Thursday, November 14, 2013

Attention JTIs!

As some of you already know, my computer crashed and burned yesterday.  That was my backup computer.  My primary computer crashed and burned about two years ago.  I can't live without a computer and internet.  Maybe I'd make it a day or two, but after that the withdrawal symptoms would be too much.  I'd end up in the nut ward.

It's a hardware problem with the computer.  It keeps giving different POST codes.  That's happened a few times in the past, but I blamed it on my battery backup.        

I was desperate.  There's a lot of other things going on in my life right now.  I won't say it couldn't get worse, because then the cat would die, the truck would explode, and /or I'd have a stroke.  I went to Milwaukee PC and bought a used Dell; i.e., I put it on plastic.  As the salesman rang it up, I said, "There go my new tires."  He smiled.  I wasn't trying to be funny.

Afterwards, legal stranger called me and told me he has a friend in the computer business who would have given me a much better deal.  Bur that would mean I'd be without a computer for a day or two.  I couldn't take that pressure at this time in my life.  I need this like a junky needs a needle in his arm.

What's done is done.  I'm in the process of updating and installing.  That usually takes a day or two.  I'm hoping to be able to access my old hard drive and transfer a lot of files.

Which brings me, finally, to the point of this blog.  Please email me at my "real" email address.  I don't know that I'll be able to access the email addresses on my old hard drive.  You don't have to write a message or anything.  Send me a blank email.  I just want to capture your address.  Thank you very much. 

5 comments:

  1. I am really sorry to hear this Daddy Orbs. I hope this new one works out for you and you can get everything into this one soon.

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  2. I always worry when I don't see any comments with the World Famous "Party On Lying John" tagline at The JT.

    A working computer with Internet access is now a vital component in Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

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  3. Email sent and I even bothered to send a message. ;>

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  4. I could have sworn that the salesman said the computer has a 160 GB hard drive, but it turns out it's only 60 GB. Perhaps it was a gaming computer. It's much faster (and quieter) than my old one.

    60 GB won't even hold all of my pictures, let alone music and videos. So I bought a second hard drive today, 500 GB. It's formatting that right now.

    I still have a lot of file transfers to do.

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  5. It's much faster (and quieter) than my old one.

    So it also solved some of your issues with the speed of your internet connection?

    Remember to schedule regular Disk Defrag's and Disk cleanups to keep that speed to the max. Also check how much RAM you have - and what the max is - there may be even more speed available - with a full RAM.

    OT -

    How Did Your Alderman Vote On Mayor Dickert's Budget?

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