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Oh, So this happened (PLEASE READ, CRISIS AVERTED)
13 years ago
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"We are made to persist."
My laptop's HDD is failing. I need to back it up and replace it. But since I can't do that, I'm shutting it down and storing it until such time as I can afford to deal with it: THIS SHOULD NOT BE MORE THAN A WEEK OR TWO, unless I have to edit this again. A suitable replacement should be in the mail.
Meanwhile, I'm using my frankenbook, an acer with no hard drive booting ubuntu from a thumbrdrive. It's about as bare bones as it gets, and it's buggy as hell, but relatively stable. It's sort of like going from a sports car to a moped, and it means the following things are out the window:
-SKYPE
-IM of ANY KIND
-TUMBLR
-SAVING DATA OF ANY KIND
I don't have skype or enough space for it on this thing. Can you even do skype in linux?
I can't get the IM client to cooperate with me. I'm still signed in on yahoo through my cell phone, so I can send and receive messages that way.
Tumblr will not cooperate at all. Nothing I do will allow me to login and view my dashboard. This is a browser issue and I can't remember what I had to do to solve it last time, which is what I get for not paying attention when my lion does his gadget-voodoo to keep my machines safe and running smoothly. There's a bunch of firefox add-ons and one of them conflicts with Tumblr's interface; I think it's probably Ghostery.
And the thumbdrive that functions as this thing's boot drive is not very big. The SD memory doesn't work, the internal SSD has been removed because of fatal malfunction, and if it's really that important I have a little space on an external hdd but nothing else. When i get my laptop back up and running, I swear I'm gonna make it a priority to get a nice, roomy flash drive to use as the frankenbook's new boot drive; like, at least 16gb if I can swing it. Back to school is on so who knows, I might be able to find a good one on sale. I don't really mind having to use a more limited computer sometimes, but the lack of update/software space is pretty uncomfortable, and constant disk-space warnings are a pain x3
So yeah, kinda lame, but not as bad as it could be. I'll just have to focus on getting other shit done.
Meanwhile, I'm using my frankenbook, an acer with no hard drive booting ubuntu from a thumbrdrive. It's about as bare bones as it gets, and it's buggy as hell, but relatively stable. It's sort of like going from a sports car to a moped, and it means the following things are out the window:
-SKYPE
-IM of ANY KIND
-TUMBLR
-SAVING DATA OF ANY KIND
I don't have skype or enough space for it on this thing. Can you even do skype in linux?
I can't get the IM client to cooperate with me. I'm still signed in on yahoo through my cell phone, so I can send and receive messages that way.
Tumblr will not cooperate at all. Nothing I do will allow me to login and view my dashboard. This is a browser issue and I can't remember what I had to do to solve it last time, which is what I get for not paying attention when my lion does his gadget-voodoo to keep my machines safe and running smoothly. There's a bunch of firefox add-ons and one of them conflicts with Tumblr's interface; I think it's probably Ghostery.
And the thumbdrive that functions as this thing's boot drive is not very big. The SD memory doesn't work, the internal SSD has been removed because of fatal malfunction, and if it's really that important I have a little space on an external hdd but nothing else. When i get my laptop back up and running, I swear I'm gonna make it a priority to get a nice, roomy flash drive to use as the frankenbook's new boot drive; like, at least 16gb if I can swing it. Back to school is on so who knows, I might be able to find a good one on sale. I don't really mind having to use a more limited computer sometimes, but the lack of update/software space is pretty uncomfortable, and constant disk-space warnings are a pain x3
So yeah, kinda lame, but not as bad as it could be. I'll just have to focus on getting other shit done.
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Art I owe people:
wildmark- Ongoing project
mitsozuka- Reference Sheet
foxystallion- Ongoing project
that happened to my desktop for a bit, hope ya can get it straightened out
I should be able to straiten it out though.
hit up goodwills...ur bound to find something (lol, even if it means tethering to a big bulky desktop drive)
As is, the HDD hasn't failed yet, it's just giving me warnings. It turns out the Toshiba Satellite A660 comes with a 640gb internal HDD that is apparently well known for failing just after the warranty expires, or right about at 18 months. A friend of mine is helping me out with it, I hould be able to have it back up and running in a week or so. I should probably edit this journal to that effect.
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/get.....omputer/linux/