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Wednesday 15 October 2003
woe is my vaio
On Monday, during a presentation with Eric Meyer here at the fabulous UI Conference, my one and a half year old vaio locked up. I was able to reboot it a few times, but then it started failing to initialize the hard drive. On those instances that I could get it to boot up, I was able to work for only a few minutes before another freeze up.
A word of advice: Get the extended coverage. If it’s the motherboard, it’s gonna cost 700 bucks to replace, if it’s the hard drive it’ll be easier on the pocket but bye bye data.
Fortunately, we were using two computers and were able to not cause a disruption in our class, which went great. However, I feel so out of touch without all my STUFF. It’s amazing how dependent I’ve become on computers to get through life.
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Posted by: site admin | 5:57 am |
October 15th, 2003 at 10:57 am
My condolences on the loss of your laptop, Molly.
I hope you can salvage some (or preferably all) of your data, and still get away without paying what would amount to an entirely new computer.
…I definitely know what you mean about feeling “out of touch” without access to your files. A few weeks back, I was doing some internal work on my desktop computer and when I closed up the case again and tried to power on, it got as far as the LED lighting up, but no further. Nothing showed on the screen, no OS came to greet me, nothing. It turned out that some of the cables had gotten wedged in between the power supply and the CPU’s heat sink (evil proprietary cramped HP case…) and not only that, but the hard drive had become corrupted beyond repair. I was *very thankful* that I had all my files backed up elsewhere, but I was still a basketcase for all that time when I couldn’t *get* to my files. (The little nagging worry of “can I actually afford to get my computer fixed?” didn’t help, either. - I eventually bought a new hard drive and finally got the beast to start, btw.)
My theory is that as we use computers more and more and become increasingly dependent on them in our daily life, our conciousness, as it were, starts to split and grows in two separate mediums: in our brains and in our computers. When we’re at our keyboards, typing away and simultaneously guiding our mice through our personal digital realms, the separation between the two mediums isn’t as great. Even when we’re not actually at our computers, if we know they’re available we’re not as uncomfortable as we are when the “virtual corpus callosum” to our “third hemisphere” is severed completely.
Of course, I can’t prove this theory (yet), but ’tis interesting, no? (I suppose it could just be that we’re addicted, cursed to experience withdrawal symptoms the longer we’re without our computers…but that wouldn’t be as cool an explanation.
)
-Erik
the-long-winded-one
October 16th, 2003 at 2:02 am
Time to buy a Mac? They just work…. (!)
October 16th, 2003 at 4:56 am
Budget woes be damned, I replaced my faithful 500MHz Gateway last summer with a Dell of 2.4Gig. One week later, I had transferred all of my data from the Gateway box onto the Dell and was really cruising. Two weeks after that, the hard drive started clicking and eventually the machine refused to boot.
I lost a bunch of stuff I hadn’t had time to put on monthly backups, a bag of utilities, hacks, URLs and tools and a TON of music I’d pulled down from the Last Days of Napster.
I wonder why Hallmark doesn’t make a card for this occasion? “Dearest Molly, I am so sorry for your loss….”
January 19th, 2004 at 9:49 am
When Batman went home at the end of a night spent fighting crime, he put on a suit and tie and became Bruce Wayne. When Clark Kent saw a news story getting too hot, a phone booth hid his change into Superman. When you’re programming, all the variables you juggle around are doing similar tricks as they present one face to you and a totally different one to the machine.
March 15th, 2006 at 8:06 pm
I don’t think I’ll be making any vow to buy another Vaio. I also have one and it isn’t working.
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