Machine!

[craigoxbrow]

So, after dozens of fruitless miles to and from Livingstone, I got a new computer at Kinnaird Park which I could have gotten last week.

There was some panic regarding the monitor doing nothing despite being connected until the discovery that it could be connected to a different port with the addition of a widget. This seems strange to me.

There was some aggravation about not being allowed to download something as an administrator until I discovered that right-clicking magically proves I am one. This seems strange to me.

There was some shouting at the broadband installer as it crashed and refused to find the modem, and then the discovery that the computer had already found it despite not reaching the end of the program. This seems strange to me.

But here I am. In two hours flat.

Now to hand the old hard drive over to the local data recovery guy and hope for the best...

Comments

[varyar.livejournal.com]

Welcome back to the modern era!

[craigoxbrow.livejournal.com]

Pip-pip!

[hortorum.livejournal.com]

Great news.
Fingers X'd on the data recovery thing. It's rare for it to be unsuccessful to be honest, especially with desktop hard drives.

Just so long as they don't call special branch if they read any of your gaming research material :)