laptop dead

[rax]

My laptop died. Because I am me, I have a spare laptop, however it doesn't have all of my config and the keyboard is terrible and I had been in the middle of editing my tasklist, literally, when it crashed. So I won't be reading LJ or DW or doing anything that isn't on my colo machine for the next while.

I last ran a backup on Monday. That's... pretty awesome, really. The only things I'll lose will be an REM album and my notes on the pokemon double battle team I was working on. Oh and my notes from class today. That one's actually annoying.

This eee keyboard is terrible, so that's really all I have to say here. I'd been having a really good couple of days, too! Hopefully that will continue, just with some technical inconveniences.

AIM lives on my colo machine, feel free to poke me there.

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[chagrined]

:( :( :( That really sucks. And, re: class notes, so class was actually useful yesterday? I thought about forcing myself to go but even though my fever was gone I still felt like crap and decided to take more time to rest instead. Anyway, hope you can get a better replacement laptop with a good keyboard.

ETA: Also, ttly off-topic, but I was reading on fandom_wank about My Little Pony, like, ttly flooding /co/ and /b/ on 4chan? Haha, WHOA! I hadn't realized it was so huge. :)

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Buy a new hard drive along with your next laptop, plug it in, when it asks if you wanna use it for Time Machine you wanna say YESYESYES. Or if you really wanna splurge you could get a Time Capsule, that is so on my list of presents to myself.

edit to add why: because then you will never have to be lucky enough to manually back up two days before a catastrophic crash ever again.

[rax.livejournal.com]

...well, this was time machine, I just don't actually plug into an external drive all that often, so I only get backed up once every couple of weeks. If it happened automatically, it would be way better, so the Time Capsule thing might be good. My Serious Work is all backed up automatically, but my laptop has a bunch of my schoolwork on a weekly level because I am getting too managerial to take notes in vi. I use notepad these days and have decided this is fine, but it does mean I don't have everything I do automatically already in colo.

In theory I have Applecare. If they give me bullshit, though, I will buy a new laptop and deal with the bullshit later, because infrastructure change twitches me out really bad and I need my computer to feel like my computer _as soon as fucking possible_.

Thanks for the Time Capsule suggestion, I will probably do that if it is less than $STUPID.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Oh cool. I have my laptop on the desk a lot, plugged into the huge external monitor and the backup drive, so I get a LOT of backups happening.

If you're taking a lot of notes that never get backed up you might want to look at Evernote (http://www.evernote.com/), I've been using it lately and it's pretty awesome - autosyncs to remote servers, and has clients for Mac, Win, iPhone, and Android.

There is also the mid-range backup solution of an Airport Extreme; you can plug a big drive into it and use it as a TC. I even got one to do this but the one I got was flaky and wouldn't keep its settings. And was the only one on the shelves at the Best Buy down the street, so no exchange. (Also converting your backups appears to be a lengthy and slightly hackish process - direct connection puts files on the disc, remote connection jams them all in a dmg.)

Also having the backup means a full restore of EEVERYTHING to the new machine will be a simple matter of plugging it in and saying "yes" to the "this drive seems to have been used for backup, do you want to restore from it and associate it to this machine?" requester. Which was a PLEASANT SURPRISE.

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

Pokemon ... notes ... Without them its a team composed of ratatta and zigzaggoon all the way, right?

[rax.livejournal.com]

Well I had picked six pokemon, and assigned them moves I wanted them to have, and natures, and started taking some notes on how to breed them to get them there, and I remember the pokemon but not all of the ancillary stuff.

I don't have a good double battle team, and I'm supposed to be double battling later in March, and I was thinking I would breed some new pokemon, but I may not get to it now...

I know, I am a horrible nerd. :P

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

Its endearingly cute n.n

[dreamsofpaprika.livejournal.com]

That's why I don't have a laptop. They have the tendency to crash more often.

[rax.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I lose a laptop hard drive once every year or two and it's frustrating, but it beats the alternative of taking notes by hand in class and then copytyping it all when I get home. Usually. :)