Comments on: G4 Dies: New Museum Computer Needed

By: RocKiteman

RocKiteman — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:01:24 +0000

Sorry to hear about the PC, Loren.

When the G4 finally quit, was it singing “Daisy”?

{ahem}

;~)°

By: YowieLover

YowieLover — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:48:39 +0000

Loren you should be able to turn the drive in the broken computer into a slave on a new computer with a new drive and operating system. Then you can possibly get your information off.

Those data loss panic attacks are a real pain. You could use this opportunity to look into computer programs such as acronis and also a regular external data back up system. Having been through this before I put the data safe necessary actions together and back up my computer weekly so if any hardware or software problem does occur, the biggest inconvenience would be reloading programs onto an entierly new computer and copying across data from an external drive.

A program like acronis that copies your entire hard drive gives great peace of mind. Should a virus attack, you just boot up a rescue disk and in about 40 minutes your computer is working like it was before the inconvenience. No more virus, no more problems. Acronis should be used once a week and multiple copies of the hard drive kept over time in case a time based trojan is the cause of infection.

My backup systems give me so much peace of mind. People should have extensive backup systems in place before they suffer this sort of panic but like myself only do it once the problem has caused considerable anxiety.

Hope you don’t lose any of that data. Good luck with it.

By: Mahalo X

Mahalo X — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:39:42 +0000

My sympathies Loren,
Last September I lost my PC to a really bad power surge, it bypassed my surge protector, and fried my video card. Being a poor student currently, it took me several weeks of computer labs and borrowed laptops before I could replace my hardware.
During those weeks of no daily Cryptomundo or C2C ; I almost went crazy! At one point in my youth I swore-off technology as a great evil (lol), I was saddened to realize how dependant on my computer I have become!
I certainly hope you can be back up and running soon.

-Mahalo X, Deep in the Oregon Wilderness

By: red_pill_junkie

red_pill_junkie — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:26:46 +0000

I would suggest a cool diorama with little plastic cryptozoological figurines.

By: TCNecaise

TCNecaise — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:32:15 +0000

Hello Loren,

This will officially be my first posting since I registered. I do computer repair and sales as a hobby. [Personal message of advice, concern and sympathy deleted.] Happy Holidays and God Bless!
Regards,
TCN

By: proriter

proriter — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:37:20 +0000

As a fellow Mac user, I commiserate with you in your time of loss. The same thing happened to me last summer. However, there is some consolation to be had in the thought that “he is not gone, just gone before.” Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, silicon to silicon. . . .

By: sausage1

sausage1 — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:16:34 +0000

Condolences for your sad loss

A Klingon rite of passage? Look skywards and scream in anguish (as you no doubt did many times when trying to use it) at the passing of its spirit. Then discard the outer case as ‘just a shell.’

Alternatively return the silicon that made it work to the very soil from whence it came.

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:32:41 +0000

I understand, I’m still using my ’98 G4.