{"id":904,"date":"2014-07-29T08:45:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/?p=904"},"modified":"2014-07-29T08:53:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T15:53:47","slug":"new-computer-oh-whoopee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/new-computer-oh-whoopee\/","title":{"rendered":"New Computer (Oh Whoopee!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kaypro\"<\/a>My daughter Leslie says I’m getting old, and she’s right! There was a time that upon getting a new computer, I could not wait to dig in, to get it going and configure it. I would be voluntarily holed up in a room for hours, playing with it. Those days are gone.<\/p>\n

Now, a new computer–especially a desktop–is an appliance, like a new washing machine. Computers\u00a0are so integrated into my life that even a new one is no longer novel. I just want it\u00a0to work so I can get on with all the things\u00a0I use it\u00a0for. (My Mac-user relatives will probably ask me again why I just don’t switch, but I still prefer the PC environment, and I’m even past the thrill of debating that topic. As Leslie said, I must be getting old.)<\/p>\n

Several months before I retired, my main desktop computer refused to boot. Then, I didn’t have time to mess with it. I hired someone to get it working, but I thought I had a backup (image) that would let me easily restore it to\u00a0exactly the state it was in before the glitch. The image was faulty, and I had to wait until after I retired to get everything set up the way it was before. At least I had a 2nd backup for my data.*<\/p>\n

A couple of days ago, the computer glitched again. I have too much important stuff on it to take a chance on losing it, and it was 5 years old, so I headed to Costco for a new one. I think the new one will work out fine, but I spent a full day setting it up and transferring my data. Although I was able to use the site Ninite.com to install most of the useful utilities, I still haven’t finished installing some of the programs that I have found to fit specific needs. That will be today’s project. If I was still working, this whole process could have taken months.<\/p>\n

*If you are not backing up, check out Crashplan.com or another online service. It is free to cheap, and it is automatic. Come to think of it, why can’t the NSA provide this service?<\/p>\n

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