A perfectly lovely way to spend an evening
So…my #2 computer fries again. I only got it right before Christmas, but Orac II is already toast – or at least its hard drive is. I left it rendering a piece of animation for the PDF DVD project on Wednesday morning, came back and found that the whole system had shut down. As best I can tell, I will not be able to recover any of the material from that machine’s hard drive. This was the only machine I had which was willing to run Paint Shop Pro 8 (which mysteriously stopped working or allowing itself to be reinstalled at all on my main PC right before New Year), and it had a nice overhead of RAM that made it a great animation machine. The good news is that it can probably do these things again once I get a new hard drive in it. The bad news is that I’m kinda outta hard drives – I had actually been contemplating finding a 100gb drive to stick into this machine as drive E/G/B/D/F/etc.; now it looks like I’m in the market for a new hard drive, period. So this kinda critically slows down the PDF DVD and any other production work that might be in the pipeline. I don’t have a backup to put in its place – this thing was the backup/replacement.
It may or may not be a coincidence that the corner of the desk occupied by this machine was recently torn to bits by Oberon, who decided that he would stop at nothing to nab Burchuss from his perch on top of the hutch. But there isn’t much point in worrying about that. (It is funny though, after years of indifference from any number of housecats, that Burchuss now has a stalker.)
In the meantime, I’m just SOL.… Read more
