A long day
18:23 Thursday 1 Mar 07
One of the two drives in the Dell has started to rumble. It’s got slowly noisier over the 6 years which is to be expected I assume but sorting some music for J the second drive rumbled as it did it’s work and yesterday I caught rhythmically rumblimg over time. So I assume something is getting old… backup time. And then to think about a new box. Can’t be a mini – there are various win-only games on it which are needed. But 6 years isn’t too bad.
Work got a bit busy last night so Uma helped me through the night with Kill Bill 1 and 2. And then I started the utterly brilliant Once Upon a Time in America. Love that film. But I got some way past the Intermission before sleep finally won me over. Good night’s viewing.
And another parent’s evening type thing for D a little earlier. Usual “Yes she’s great, wonderful, pleasure to be with etc etc”. Which is good even if it’s also boring after all these years :) Her desire for blue freckle tattoos as a ‘reward’ isn’t in the plan though. Not my plan.
And J has been discharged from the Eye clinics. She is as good as they can get her. The Cardiac people did that a little while ago. Now all we need is Neurology to do the same :)
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And the newer drives last even less time than the old ones. OT did you get my email on yr gmail?
19:27 Thursday 1 Mar 07
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Holy mother of g… ohh no wait. You’ve had that comment.
My DELL drives are beginning to be noisy too.. 5 and a bit years, which I figure is ‘fine’.
It’ll be another Dell for me though, much as I’m tempted to ‘go Mac’ I can’t justify it, and your experiences have certainly helped me make that decision. Thanks!
09:59 Friday 2 Mar 07
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Root – I did.Too many hours working to reply coherently. Will do today
Gordon – I don’t use the PC for any tasks. I use it for films. I use it to watch films as I work and for now I use it for photos.
But for everything else it’s the mac.
What can’t I do yet:
- find something that will make a PDF and is not OO
- find something to let me do my own flavour of screenshots
- that’s it…. there are minor grumbles but I had those on Windows.
Do I love it? No.
If it wasn’t for the specific needs of the other machine would I get a mac? Probably.
11:34 Friday 2 Mar 07
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Sorry I didnt mean to hassle you. Just wanted to be sure Google wasn’t playing up.
19:44 Friday 2 Mar 07