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Anoel ([personal profile] anoel) wrote2007-03-18 07:07 pm
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Computer woes

So now my laptop has stopped working. According to the tech guys at my school, the hard drive is shot. Probably randomly. Great, just great. Not only do I have a ton to do this week, I don't have all my vids, vidding stuff, music and personal computer for internet usage. Already I can't even get Lum's vid to play :( I'm hoping I can recover the information because I stupidly don't have it backed up. The place where I bought it from is in NY so it'll probably take forever me to get it back. So I guess I'll be using the school library a lot. *sigh* This just sucks.

Some new Michael/Jan fic cheered me up and probably watching The Office will do the same but I can tell it'll be a long two weeks before the glorious month of April begins.

[identity profile] renenet.livejournal.com 2007-03-19 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Awwwwww!!!! ::huggles you::

[identity profile] anoel.livejournal.com 2007-03-19 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks :)
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[personal profile] paraka 2007-03-19 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Oh god, that sucks about your hard drive and vids. :S I hope you can get it working!

[identity profile] anoel.livejournal.com 2007-03-19 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, same here. I can't even imagine being without them.
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[personal profile] paraka 2007-03-19 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Computer problems suck!

Also, not having a computer sucks (just got over that problem recently myself :S).

As for not having vids, I completely understand. I've changed a bit recently, but for me, vidding *was* my fandom. Sure I'd mostly download vids from certain fandoms, but really I didn't limit myself to known fandoms. You could take away fics, and icons and graphics, and hell, in someways even the shows, and I'd be ok, so long as I had my vids.

About a year and a half ago I moved to China, and I didn't have a computer with me, but I still brought some vids with me on CD. And *that* was hard, since of my like 15GBs of vids (at the time) I could only take like 3GBs :(

*life hard* we need ivds :P

[identity profile] anoel.livejournal.com 2007-03-20 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Vids are definitely important but thankfully I can redownload most of them. It's just a bitch to do. I'm always thankful to have them though.
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[personal profile] paraka 2007-03-20 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I have most of my vids backed up on another computer, but not most of my SGA or SG-1 vids.

Actually when I think of the things I may have lost, those are the worse, but I also save my favourite fics, so I'll have lost a good deal of those. And some podfics, 1 of which I was making myself (oh god, like 100 hours down the drain!). I have most of my music on an external hard drive. Same with most of my source material. I'll have lost a few eps and movies, but nothing too huge.

Programs. That's another biggie. just getting Firefox set up on this computer is annoying. I had a lot of add ons installed (thank god a bookmark synchronizer was amoung them).

Also, things like tracking down the programs and their keygens can be a pain (I always seem to get virus' when looking for keygens).

It won't be the end of the world if I can't get my info back, I'll just be incredibly pissed.

Oh computers, how you suck, but make life so we can't live without you!
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[personal profile] paraka 2007-03-20 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
wow, getting posts mixed up :P This one is about *your* woes, not mine :P

[identity profile] anoel.livejournal.com 2007-03-20 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Really sorry about your troubles. The good news is that tech guys managed to get my stuff backed up (hopefully all of it, its processing now). So I hope the same can happen to you. And yeah, can't live without them.

[identity profile] dualbunny.livejournal.com 2007-03-19 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
That really does suck. :[ ::big hugs::

[identity profile] anoel.livejournal.com 2007-03-19 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks. I just can't believe my bad luck that this has to happen right now.

[identity profile] fadsy.livejournal.com 2007-03-19 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
Meh, I'm sorry. That really sucks. :(

[identity profile] anoel.livejournal.com 2007-03-19 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
It really does :( At least its still Office rerun time, I guess (although I still wish it wasn't).

[identity profile] stephmck.livejournal.com 2007-03-19 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope the stuff on your HD can be recovered, losing your laptop is like the death of a friend, I feel for you *hugs*

Oh, are you reading Four Weddings and Bird Funeral by [livejournal.com profile] juteux? It's a Jim/Pam story, but "wedding two" would definitely be your thing ;) (OMG I'm reccing Office fic ... I don't have a second fandom, really I don't *hides*)

[identity profile] anoel.livejournal.com 2007-03-19 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's happened before and destroyed me but I'm hoping for the best right now. At least I still have my external hard drives (with all my QaF/Office stuff, thank god). And yeah, I've read the M/J part. Super cute. I find my way to all the Michael/Jan stuff out there lol.

[identity profile] anoel.livejournal.com 2007-03-20 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
:(