Green Lightseses
11/02/2008 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaIzzie's been busy on a grand mission of decluttering. Was pottering about in the process of tidying up our desk top and uploading some weedy piccies for the Izzie picture gallery when suddenly at the stroke of midnight on Friday, everything froze. Resorted to the old off button but when the lightses came back on - was no snakie piccies - nothing but a grey screen, a dark grey apple and a spinning daisy. Called the tech wizard help line next day for instructions but the news wasn't good.
Looks like we got ourselves a bit more tidying up than anticipated. Somehow this serpent managed to wave the old witchie wand hand and cast lots of green light all over the hard drive of the Preciousss.
So spent the work free hours of the weekend zapping the hard drive and starting from scratch again
Lucky that the monthly back up was one of the items in progress on that 101 list so ended up only losing any documents from before 2nd January this year
Did lose about 30 albums from iTunes rather than the whole lot. Lucky was able to work out how to get our 5 month old back up resurrected and back onto the iTunes screen but not so lucky with the piccies. They are nearly all still there but just not in a very user friendly format.
Still got all the photos and music on the pod and so will not be synching the thing for a very long long time
But the big problem at the moment is that the newly installed out of the box operating system is no longer the minimum required for our new Cyberian portkey. But of course - can't update to the previous one without the internet
So the Izzie has to slink to a netcafe with the mad mac to get back all those bells and whistles. No Firefox. No Opera Sad
Funny. Was only thinking on Thursday - all happy with our pretty new Portkey and relieved that we would not have to waste another Monday slinking in the city schlepping the Preciousss.
After all, the last one was nasty and stinking hot and totally unproductive and frustrating
But what a difference a week made. Unlike last Monday's visit downtown with the Preciousss, this one was infinitely more successful and even managed to get in and out on the one 2 hour bus ticket!
Using the netcafe's big fat juicy blue cable, took just over 5 mins to download a 118mb software update file (but rather longer to install it) and our total time there of 45 mins cost only $$3.60 Most reasonable indeed for such a zippy service
And this time, knew that until the bad mad mac displayed a message saying it detected a new device, all the button pushing and form filling in the world would get us nowhere.
So now - just remains to keep the serpent fingers crossed and hope that the close proximity of time between getting our new gadget and crashing the hard drive is purely coincidental.
Now the Izzie is back in Cyberia, did not take too long to get our Opera and Firefox including a very sweet little green foxy theme. All the buttons are grey but highlighting and status bar and stuff is a pretty emerald green
And totally forgot that we'll finally be able to propery listen to Pandora Radio. Even found an Opera widget to do that very thing along with a squiggly Spirograph widget. Got so so nostalgic playing with that gadget
And maybe it's time for Izzie to get a stack of CDs for storing piccies.
Looks like we got ourselves a bit more tidying up than anticipated. Somehow this serpent managed to wave the old witchie wand hand and cast lots of green light all over the hard drive of the Preciousss.
So spent the work free hours of the weekend zapping the hard drive and starting from scratch again
Lucky that the monthly back up was one of the items in progress on that 101 list so ended up only losing any documents from before 2nd January this year
Did lose about 30 albums from iTunes rather than the whole lot. Lucky was able to work out how to get our 5 month old back up resurrected and back onto the iTunes screen but not so lucky with the piccies. They are nearly all still there but just not in a very user friendly format.
Still got all the photos and music on the pod and so will not be synching the thing for a very long long time
But the big problem at the moment is that the newly installed out of the box operating system is no longer the minimum required for our new Cyberian portkey. But of course - can't update to the previous one without the internet
So the Izzie has to slink to a netcafe with the mad mac to get back all those bells and whistles. No Firefox. No Opera Sad
Funny. Was only thinking on Thursday - all happy with our pretty new Portkey and relieved that we would not have to waste another Monday slinking in the city schlepping the Preciousss.
After all, the last one was nasty and stinking hot and totally unproductive and frustrating
But what a difference a week made. Unlike last Monday's visit downtown with the Preciousss, this one was infinitely more successful and even managed to get in and out on the one 2 hour bus ticket!
Using the netcafe's big fat juicy blue cable, took just over 5 mins to download a 118mb software update file (but rather longer to install it) and our total time there of 45 mins cost only $$3.60 Most reasonable indeed for such a zippy service
And this time, knew that until the bad mad mac displayed a message saying it detected a new device, all the button pushing and form filling in the world would get us nowhere.
So now - just remains to keep the serpent fingers crossed and hope that the close proximity of time between getting our new gadget and crashing the hard drive is purely coincidental.
Now the Izzie is back in Cyberia, did not take too long to get our Opera and Firefox including a very sweet little green foxy theme. All the buttons are grey but highlighting and status bar and stuff is a pretty emerald green
And totally forgot that we'll finally be able to propery listen to Pandora Radio. Even found an Opera widget to do that very thing along with a squiggly Spirograph widget. Got so so nostalgic playing with that gadget
And maybe it's time for Izzie to get a stack of CDs for storing piccies.
