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Also did a junk sweep.

3 gigs of junk.

2 more of registry errors.

It's no wonder I've been having issues with my machinery.

After clearing all of that out, everything runs faster.

Who knows, it could even help me speed up with the writing. After all, if things aren't glitching because they're trying to find any one of the 128 missing DLLs, things might just go quicker.

Current Mood: WTF bugs
Current Music: Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - A Minute, A Day, No More | Powered by Last.fm

I need to do a number of things, namely:

1: organize my folders in Deviant Art. The Dissidia folder and all its cracky glory are woefully disorganized.

2: build a submission cushion for DevArt.

3: Look into a new USB cable and Memory Stick for my PSP.

4: Give a run of the newest demos.

5: Commentary on America’s Test Kitchen for the DS.

There’s more than this, but these are priority. With any luck, the pain in my leg won’t derail me again.

And if it does I attack it with pills and possibly interesting homeopathic approaches.

Current Mood: /adjust glasses

In my efforts to restore my music library to its former glory (read: get everything again so that I can actually use my Last.fm page again) I’ve had to give my Zen Microphoto life support. I’m afraid that this just might be the last time I can actually do that. Regularly, now, I have to use Goblin Tech Support to get it to run—that just means you bang on it in the right place until it operates.

In light of this, I decided I’d pull everything off of it and put it onto an external hard drive.

(Actually, it’s an internal connected with a power supply connected to the machine with a USB bridge.)

To make sure I don’t lose the better half of my library though, I’m going to have to make sure I set it onto this drive. It’ll take a while—going from one USB devise to another after all—but the majority of the stuff on it is rares, and since the storage is disk based, it’s all transferable.

Call me sentimental though—I don’t want to get rid of it. This little white thing was the first big purchase I made. First high-tech device. First exposure to the awesomeness of having hours upon hours of music in the back pocket of a denim skirt.

And, I will admit, first session of random, iPod-commercial-style dancing with headphones attached.

If I can salvage the hardware, I will be quite happy. If not...well, I think what I might do, is I might put it up in one of those little clear cases with a plaque with something clever written on it: The Groovy Results of A Hard Day’s Work, or something like that.

I’m a nerd, so what?

Current Mood: geeky

I got the new hard drive into the machine; it is a sexy beast. Eighty gigabytes of clean space, and all that it needs is an OS to go. Problem is that the optical drive--the DVD-RW--it seems to have now died along with everything else. So the next thing that I apparently have to do is go back to the local diagnostic place and see if it is in fact what I think it is, which would be the motor for the drive in question. If that is the case, then I will simply be buying an external optical drive, and not worrying about replacing the onboard. If it is the case, it would be the cheapest alternative; I rather like this old thing and given the choice would like to keep it. It's heavy, kind of clunky-looking, and has a killer sound card software default installed. I mean, it's no Creative X-Fi, but WHAT IS?

Frankly, the main reason I don't wanna bother with a way newer machine is that I don't feel like learning a new OS just now. I'm fine with Windows XP, and until it is no longer supported, I feel myself not to have a reason to grab it just yet. I'm fine with the 95-era visuals and somewhat clunky interface. I like the blocky look. You probably wouldn't have guessed it but I kind of like the older tech when it comes to software. It's often easier to commit to memory when you've learned its basics. And really, that's all that I need, the basics.

Current Mood: *poke the computer!*
Current Location: the land of soggy soybeans and corn
Current Music: Buddhattitude—Inuk—Galactica Wings

You know. A high-speed connection is almost pointless when one's tech cannot handle the speed of the connection. Seriously.

( If you really want to know… )

Current Mood: LOL aging technology
Current Music: BT—Satellite

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