Writing Report
Nov. 2nd, 2003 07:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I haven't written anything today.
Jeff called around 1 or 2 pm. Jeri-Lynn is gone until Thursday so he'd said he might call. I didn't really have anything planned, but I wanted to get a keyboard for Tom's old 2nd computer that I've been playing around with. So Jeff came by, and we drove up to Lynnwood to PC Club, where I bought a cheap $10 keyboard that is all black so it looks cool, and a cheap $8 optical mouse that was all black with a light-up wheel, and a cheap network card and a cable.
I've bought cheap network cards before and it's not usually a good idea, but it didn't stop me from making the same mistake again.
We came back to my place and watched some anime. I didn't have Read or Die (Gene and Mike still have it) but I had the newer Spirit of Wonder series that Jeff hadn't seen yet. Fun stuff.
When that was done I plugged my mouse and keyboard into Tom's 2nd computer and got it to boot up. Then I installed the net card. Then Jeff tried to get it to recognize the net card. Then we moved the net card to a different slot. Then it finally saw the net card, and after more work it was able to see other computers on the net. Then Jeff did some updates and that sort of thing. Then it couldn't find the hard drive, so we checked the cable connection, and then it was happy and could see it again.
While all of this was going on I did things on my other computers in the room... I played around on Tom's computer, ran virus scan and AdAware scan, removed Yahoo Instant Messenger which he'd complained about constantly (he didn't remember installing it in the first place), and then ran scans on my own (main) computer. My Linux system which I rarely do anything with (in part because it's not fully in communcation with my network) had been shut down since I lost power a week or two ago, so I tried turning it on. I didn't realize right away that the software disk was in the drive, so I wound up installing Linux again, and this eventually hosed the system so that it won't boot up. Oy vey! Well I wasn't doing much with it anyway, but it bugs me when I have a computer that isn't working. ^_^
Speaking of which... after Jeff left I discovered that the computer now known on the network as "Piecesof8" (because it's Tom's computer but I'm hijacking it since he has no use for it) had tried to reboot. Every time it reboots it encounters an error and you have to hit F1 to make it continue. Well, once again it can't find the hard drive. I don't think it's a loose cable after all, I think the hard drive is about to die. So maybe all my work on this silly computer was a waste of time after all. Too bad too, I wanted to play around on a Win 2k machine a little and learn more about that platform.
Oh well, that leave me with two computers that don't work at the moment, although I'm suspicious that Piecesof8 will boot up just fine if I leave it sit for a while... then will stop working again after running for a while.
The important thing is that my main computers work just fine so I can work on my stories again.
Jeff called around 1 or 2 pm. Jeri-Lynn is gone until Thursday so he'd said he might call. I didn't really have anything planned, but I wanted to get a keyboard for Tom's old 2nd computer that I've been playing around with. So Jeff came by, and we drove up to Lynnwood to PC Club, where I bought a cheap $10 keyboard that is all black so it looks cool, and a cheap $8 optical mouse that was all black with a light-up wheel, and a cheap network card and a cable.
I've bought cheap network cards before and it's not usually a good idea, but it didn't stop me from making the same mistake again.
We came back to my place and watched some anime. I didn't have Read or Die (Gene and Mike still have it) but I had the newer Spirit of Wonder series that Jeff hadn't seen yet. Fun stuff.
When that was done I plugged my mouse and keyboard into Tom's 2nd computer and got it to boot up. Then I installed the net card. Then Jeff tried to get it to recognize the net card. Then we moved the net card to a different slot. Then it finally saw the net card, and after more work it was able to see other computers on the net. Then Jeff did some updates and that sort of thing. Then it couldn't find the hard drive, so we checked the cable connection, and then it was happy and could see it again.
While all of this was going on I did things on my other computers in the room... I played around on Tom's computer, ran virus scan and AdAware scan, removed Yahoo Instant Messenger which he'd complained about constantly (he didn't remember installing it in the first place), and then ran scans on my own (main) computer. My Linux system which I rarely do anything with (in part because it's not fully in communcation with my network) had been shut down since I lost power a week or two ago, so I tried turning it on. I didn't realize right away that the software disk was in the drive, so I wound up installing Linux again, and this eventually hosed the system so that it won't boot up. Oy vey! Well I wasn't doing much with it anyway, but it bugs me when I have a computer that isn't working. ^_^
Speaking of which... after Jeff left I discovered that the computer now known on the network as "Piecesof8" (because it's Tom's computer but I'm hijacking it since he has no use for it) had tried to reboot. Every time it reboots it encounters an error and you have to hit F1 to make it continue. Well, once again it can't find the hard drive. I don't think it's a loose cable after all, I think the hard drive is about to die. So maybe all my work on this silly computer was a waste of time after all. Too bad too, I wanted to play around on a Win 2k machine a little and learn more about that platform.
Oh well, that leave me with two computers that don't work at the moment, although I'm suspicious that Piecesof8 will boot up just fine if I leave it sit for a while... then will stop working again after running for a while.
The important thing is that my main computers work just fine so I can work on my stories again.