The end of an era
My computer has died. I have no pictures, no video, no nothing to show for it, mainly cos I'm running off a loaner at the moment.
The story goes, I tried to install a much bigger hard drive. 320gb to be exact. This would give me wonderful amounts of space to provide you, my reading (and viewing) public, with some very tasty video treats. However, during the installation of this new drive, everything was going well when suddenly... my computer refused to boot.
Tried everything, tried putting everything back to normal, nothing worked. Kaput. Sadness ensued. However the next day pete came to the rescue with a loaner desktop. So we sat around the place while I copied the image of my old hard drive onto the new, and everything went fine. Perhaps it was just the old computer's time to go.
So yes. I hope to have a replacement soon, but we shall see, my faithful readers and viewers... Who knows what the future may bring?
We shall see.
-Fin-
The story goes, I tried to install a much bigger hard drive. 320gb to be exact. This would give me wonderful amounts of space to provide you, my reading (and viewing) public, with some very tasty video treats. However, during the installation of this new drive, everything was going well when suddenly... my computer refused to boot.
Tried everything, tried putting everything back to normal, nothing worked. Kaput. Sadness ensued. However the next day pete came to the rescue with a loaner desktop. So we sat around the place while I copied the image of my old hard drive onto the new, and everything went fine. Perhaps it was just the old computer's time to go.
So yes. I hope to have a replacement soon, but we shall see, my faithful readers and viewers... Who knows what the future may bring?
We shall see.
-Fin-
posted by Luke at 12:44 AM
21 Comments:
Did you staticly electrocute your computer?
i hope the future brings with it much sour cream & onion flavoured potato chips.
Hmm.....I wonder....
I seem to remember seeing a video of a certain housemate exclaiming "Don't film me!"
I wonder if he got his revenge....
:) the future has brought me a shiny laptop... to be talked about soon enough.
ahhh the phoenix.... out of the ashes another will rise...
Do I still have to be your goofy sidekick reporter from the US?
Level 3
Revenge? Me? Never..surely not...well maybe:P But certainly not in this instance, I have only the utmost respect (well, mostly) for Luke's nerdy leanings and as such would never wilfully damage any of his geeky toys, yet alone that box on his desk that he, as all good dorks, takes so much pride in..
i originally came here just to read further comments, and wasnt going to comment again, but after seeing the word verification, i knew that i had to.
WV: errrq
sounds like a confused person choking.
Sincere commiserations, Luke.
Hope you get your shiny new laptop soon.
heh hmm
I bought a laptop
I sold the laptop
So who knows what'll come next?
My life sounds like a childrens poem.
Why you sell?
he sold so he could but a smaller and better laptop :-P
Is he gonna keep ebaying it all 'til he gets a Palm Pilot?
haha... he had one of those, but he sold it too.
hehehehe its true.
I sold the laptop cos it not have USB 2.0... or the capabilities of the wireless kind
and when I tried to install a pcmia wireless card I couldn't - it would freeze everytime it tried to install the drivers :S:S:S:S
crazy thing :)
Floppy disks and dial-up internet just not good enough for ya???
:) hmm let me think for a sec...
No.
Lol!! my portable hard drive has an 80G capacity, I've like used 55G out of it... I'd like to see that kind of capacity represented by floppy disks!!! That'd be hilarious...
hmmm perhaps a thought for a future post...
My laptop recently bit the dust. It wouldn't restart. But then my dad went and had the hard drive cleaned. Luckily I had my important files backed up :-) (sigh) technology...
C'mon Luke, if you estimate a GB as 1000MB then so far you've only used the capacity of 38,195 floppy disks.
Splitting a video file over 1000 floppy disks wouldn't present a problem for you would it?
Haha, word verification PUARS
Excerpt from the third paragraph of your blog entry (textilised wit gizoogle):
Tried everyth'n, tried pimpin' everyth'n bizzle ta normal, nuttin' worked . They call me tha black folks president. Kaput. Sadness ensued. Playa tha nizzext day pete came ta tha rescue wit a loana desktop fo' sheezy.
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