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Maintenance problems
Oct. 30th, 2012 10:33 pmI knew I had to do this. It was inevitable. My system drive kept running out of space and I had to reinstall Windows on a different drive. But it's never just reinstalling the system, is it? And doing it all and setting everything up the way I like it always takes forever. I started on Sunday morning and I'm sure I will keep running into missing programs for weeks still. Mostly because I don't remember everything I had and only use from time to time. Also because I'm lazy.
Being lazy is also the reason why I kept postponing it and just making some adjustments instead of dealing with the problem. My laptop has two hard drives - SSD (system) and normal HDD (large file storage). As I said the first one was too small (the laptop is starting to show signs of age - it's almost 3 but as it used to be top of the line it's nothing part replacement won't fix). I was planning to switch system to the second drive (part of the delay as it meant backing up all that was on it) but I found a better way. I got a bigger SSD drive. They got cheaper and then there was a sale and now I have twice as much space.
So new drive. New system install. New clean installations of all the programs. Shiny and faster and not bogged down by registry trash. And then something started to make a horrible noise inside. At first I thought it was CD because tit sounded like one that's not even. I also suspected I might've left a loose screw inside when I was putting the drive in (I wasn't suspecting the drive - SSD doesn't have moving parts). So I looked inside.
And it turned out one of the fans lost two blades. I removed pieces I could find and it works pretty well but both of the blades where on the same half of the fan. This means that, like all spinning things, it's now unequalised and thus wobbly. I can feel the vibrations every time it comes on. They are not bad but eventually they will break it.
So this was my first service call. It took 36 minutes to explain and set up replacement. For a fan. It's like papercutting your finger - it hurts more then it looks.
Meanwhile, huragan Sandy cased all the terrible devastation it was supposed to and among affected are some of the big sites when servers of Datagram Inc in New York City died so did Huffington Post, Buzzfeed and Gawker. I noticed when I couldn't get to io9 yesterday and then today. The funny thing is I was making fun of people lamenting Tumblr going down and now it hosts io9 emergency site. This shows that internet is not independent of real life disasters. Not that that's very important. In the totality of the destruction servers and sites doesn't matter. But it is something that brings the consequences to people who didn't get their homes flooded, or snowed, or burned, or even just lost power.
Being lazy is also the reason why I kept postponing it and just making some adjustments instead of dealing with the problem. My laptop has two hard drives - SSD (system) and normal HDD (large file storage). As I said the first one was too small (the laptop is starting to show signs of age - it's almost 3 but as it used to be top of the line it's nothing part replacement won't fix). I was planning to switch system to the second drive (part of the delay as it meant backing up all that was on it) but I found a better way. I got a bigger SSD drive. They got cheaper and then there was a sale and now I have twice as much space.
So new drive. New system install. New clean installations of all the programs. Shiny and faster and not bogged down by registry trash. And then something started to make a horrible noise inside. At first I thought it was CD because tit sounded like one that's not even. I also suspected I might've left a loose screw inside when I was putting the drive in (I wasn't suspecting the drive - SSD doesn't have moving parts). So I looked inside.
And it turned out one of the fans lost two blades. I removed pieces I could find and it works pretty well but both of the blades where on the same half of the fan. This means that, like all spinning things, it's now unequalised and thus wobbly. I can feel the vibrations every time it comes on. They are not bad but eventually they will break it.
So this was my first service call. It took 36 minutes to explain and set up replacement. For a fan. It's like papercutting your finger - it hurts more then it looks.
Meanwhile, huragan Sandy cased all the terrible devastation it was supposed to and among affected are some of the big sites when servers of Datagram Inc in New York City died so did Huffington Post, Buzzfeed and Gawker. I noticed when I couldn't get to io9 yesterday and then today. The funny thing is I was making fun of people lamenting Tumblr going down and now it hosts io9 emergency site. This shows that internet is not independent of real life disasters. Not that that's very important. In the totality of the destruction servers and sites doesn't matter. But it is something that brings the consequences to people who didn't get their homes flooded, or snowed, or burned, or even just lost power.
