Fun day...
Sep. 5th, 2016 06:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kengrThat was sarcasm.
Been dealing with illness, computer problems and more
Been dealing with a low grade fever for several days. also being kinda "blah", and sleeping a *lot*.
Finally made the monthly WinCo run on Sunday. I was feeling a bit better, plus I was running out of some things (like cheese).
Matters were not helped by the fact that when on the way home from the food bank run *last* weekend, the rear axle on the new folding cart but. Grrr.
Gotta contact the manufacturer about getting a replacement part. Also see if they have replacements for the old cart.
Anyway, lack of a cart meant I was going to be more limited in what I could carry.
Took the big cold bag from Trader Joes, my "usual" cloth bag, and a backpack for the heavier non-cold stuff.
Managed to get more of the stuff on the list than I thought I would. I'll still have to make another trip, but it won't be that bad.
That brings us to the buses. The fall schedule took effect Sunday. and the online trip planner wouldn't let you plan any trips for later than Saturday until sometime between 2am Sunday morning (when I gave up) and 8 am Sunday morning (when I got up and tried again.
Worse, it *accept* the date for Sunday, but give you an answer based on Saturday's schedules. I almost got bitten by it, buit the directions had me taking the #71 all the way. And I knew that with the new schedule, they'd split the #71 into two lines (#71 & #73) and I'd havve to transfer between them.
This will be a minor annoyance most of the time, but it'll be a significant one when making trips to the Oriental market, as it'd only a dozen blocks past the transfer point.
Again, some sarcasm.
I'd gotten a new-to-me system that's a step up from the one it replaced, 6 gig of RAM (and can go up to 8), had windows 7 on it, and other good things.
Thing was, while I could ping IP addresses on the internet, *nothing* would *connect* to sites. Browsers didn't work, my antivirus couldn't get update, *Wiondows* couldn't get updates.
Yet at the same time, I could access other systems on the LAN. WTF?
Of course, if you mess with something long enough, you'll break it. I managed top clobber the boot drive (I was trying to copy it using my old copy of Drive Copy, and it "corrected" some errors, then told me there weren't any partitions.. *sigh*
Since I'd installed a couple of mobile racks on the box already, I stuck in a 120 gig HD (did I mention that the two HDs in it were 80 gig each?) that I'd gotten via freecycle,
It was kinda slow (not merely because it was IDE and the other drives were SATA). But I was able to do a fresh install of Windows 7 to it.
Oh yeah, I tried doing a WinXP install, but kept getting an error that seems to mean I didn't have some driver or other.
Anyway, got Win 7 installed, was cheerfully installing my default software loads, and had just started installing a few other programs when winddows infoms me that the HD was failing. Lovely. at least it was free.
First attempt to copy it (using CloneZilla) didn't work. Now I've been running Windows Backup for around 4 hours. It's currently 68% completed. Ugh.
When it completes, I'll need to shut down pull the mobile rack, reboot (from the system repair disk I still have to make (and that'll be fun as there isn't a floppy drive). Hopefully I can create on on USB or burn a CD. If not, I get to dig out one of the USB floppy drivers
Been dealing with illness, computer problems and more
Been dealing with a low grade fever for several days. also being kinda "blah", and sleeping a *lot*.
Finally made the monthly WinCo run on Sunday. I was feeling a bit better, plus I was running out of some things (like cheese).
Matters were not helped by the fact that when on the way home from the food bank run *last* weekend, the rear axle on the new folding cart but. Grrr.
Gotta contact the manufacturer about getting a replacement part. Also see if they have replacements for the old cart.
Anyway, lack of a cart meant I was going to be more limited in what I could carry.
Took the big cold bag from Trader Joes, my "usual" cloth bag, and a backpack for the heavier non-cold stuff.
Managed to get more of the stuff on the list than I thought I would. I'll still have to make another trip, but it won't be that bad.
That brings us to the buses. The fall schedule took effect Sunday. and the online trip planner wouldn't let you plan any trips for later than Saturday until sometime between 2am Sunday morning (when I gave up) and 8 am Sunday morning (when I got up and tried again.
Worse, it *accept* the date for Sunday, but give you an answer based on Saturday's schedules. I almost got bitten by it, buit the directions had me taking the #71 all the way. And I knew that with the new schedule, they'd split the #71 into two lines (#71 & #73) and I'd havve to transfer between them.
This will be a minor annoyance most of the time, but it'll be a significant one when making trips to the Oriental market, as it'd only a dozen blocks past the transfer point.
Again, some sarcasm.
I'd gotten a new-to-me system that's a step up from the one it replaced, 6 gig of RAM (and can go up to 8), had windows 7 on it, and other good things.
Thing was, while I could ping IP addresses on the internet, *nothing* would *connect* to sites. Browsers didn't work, my antivirus couldn't get update, *Wiondows* couldn't get updates.
Yet at the same time, I could access other systems on the LAN. WTF?
Of course, if you mess with something long enough, you'll break it. I managed top clobber the boot drive (I was trying to copy it using my old copy of Drive Copy, and it "corrected" some errors, then told me there weren't any partitions.. *sigh*
Since I'd installed a couple of mobile racks on the box already, I stuck in a 120 gig HD (did I mention that the two HDs in it were 80 gig each?) that I'd gotten via freecycle,
It was kinda slow (not merely because it was IDE and the other drives were SATA). But I was able to do a fresh install of Windows 7 to it.
Oh yeah, I tried doing a WinXP install, but kept getting an error that seems to mean I didn't have some driver or other.
Anyway, got Win 7 installed, was cheerfully installing my default software loads, and had just started installing a few other programs when winddows infoms me that the HD was failing. Lovely. at least it was free.
First attempt to copy it (using CloneZilla) didn't work. Now I've been running Windows Backup for around 4 hours. It's currently 68% completed. Ugh.
When it completes, I'll need to shut down pull the mobile rack, reboot (from the system repair disk I still have to make (and that'll be fun as there isn't a floppy drive). Hopefully I can create on on USB or burn a CD. If not, I get to dig out one of the USB floppy drivers
