Sunday, November 28, 2004
Sigh…
So we arrived home, safe and sound. Since it has now been reported to the California grandparents by phone, I can tell you that Sadie’s big milestone yesterday, witnessed by four of us, was rolling over from her back to her belly at 8 weeks and 3 days old. Slow down kid!
She recognized she was home after we set her down in here, and was all happy about it, a regular smile factory. I agree.
However, it would have been nice not to come home to a dead computer. Doh!
I shut it off while I was away. Normally it stays on. Popped in, turned it on, went out to the car for another load, came back in an found it repeatedly attempting to boot itself, giving no video signal, running the CD drive lights non-stop, and clicking.
Go figure. Leave it off so it can’t fry while I’m gone. Current first hope theory is it’s the power supply, which could make it do this sort of thing if it’s “dead” but not dead. I may borrow Deb’s power supply tonight to test. Her machine is what I am using now.
My secondary thinking involves things like fried BIOS and/or motherboard. I need a new computer, but I don’t need a new computer, nor is this the time for it. My P3 1000 is more than enough power for anything I do at home. Heck, I am more in need of a modern machine, say a P4 3 GHz, at the office where I use a P3 450.
We also got as heavily spammed over the weekend as we have any time since I closed off comments on the oldest 80% of the posts. I think it’s time to close them on more. We’ve also been having spammers “register” as users in some kind of effort to be able to post comments more easily. I need to determine how to turn that off even though it can’t be turned off. I think that will be a similar renaming of a .php file and all references to it in code as is a solution to part of the comment spam problem in WordPress.
If it’s not as simple as the power supply, things will be interesting the next day or two. I have spare computers I can use, including Deb’s laptop, but just the whole thing of having to try to fix it, and if not fixable, to try to replace it temporarily and/or permanently, all while ideally not losing any accumulated data. sheesh.
Thursday, August 12, 2004
*sigh*
This is a large part of why I miss living in Pensacola so damn much it makes me want to cry sometimes, even if you do spend half the summer wondering when one of these things is actually going to hit you again.
Thursday, May 13, 2004
Sigh.
Blogging is most likely over for the day due to continued connectivity issues. Until I can drag my husband in here and convince him to figure out what’s going wrong, I quit.
[Long description of exactly how the thing is pissing me off deleted out of mercy.]
I am also having trouble getting into my e-mail, so my apologies if I haven’t replied.
Luckily, I have a backup plan: shopping. Heh. I’m not someone who enjoys shopping for clothes, but I really don’t enjoy doing laundry, either, and I’m down to one outfit I can leave the house in.
Maternity racks, here I come.
I’ll see y’all tomorrow. *waves*