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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[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.