My Computer Is Dead

9/11/2019

I am sad to report that my computer is dead. The hard drive on the six-month-old machine gave out Sunday night, taking with it most of my multimedia files. Fortunately, my book files were backed up to the cloud, and older data are on my external hard drive, but I lost a lot anyway. Beyond this, the computer has to be returned to the manufacturer for repair under the terms of the warranty, so I am without a computer for the next week or more. This is going to make it very difficult to work, let alone to write, since I don’t do well trying to type on my tablet, and I can only borrow a computer for so long per day. As a result, my blog will likely be spotty and short until I have a working machine again.

Meanwhile, there was some good news for Ancient Aliens and its fans. After a month of near-record-low ratings, the series bounced back across the million-viewer line, though just barely, for its final summer broadcast. The show brought in 1.027 million viewers and even edged out The UnXplained, which had only 976,000 viewers, though the latter show outdrew the former in the all-important 18-54 demographic.

36 Comments

Brian

9/11/2019 08:42:20 am

Crashes are never fun, but buck up, it's a predictable part of the technology. Don't forget your local public library, where you can use computers with keyboards until yours comes back.

Machala

9/11/2019 10:49:02 am

I sympathize. We've all been through it. At least, if you've synced your computer with your tablet, between the sync. and cloud storage, you should be able to retrieve almost everything - unlike the old days. Still, trying to type and do your work in a tablet is a royal pain-in-the-ass.

Internet cafes are not as ubiquitous up there as they are here in Ecuador, but as Brian pointed out, you do have the public library.

After you get your computer fixed, tell us the brand, so we can avoid it. Crashing after six-months of uses is not acceptable.

LARRY storch

9/11/2019 12:15:25 pm

I’m not making any accusations here, but it’s well known that 99% of hard drive failures are related to the user visiting dangerous porn websites that infect the computer with malware.

Marty the Marion

9/12/2019 11:01:37 am

You are correct. I once had a computer crash when I visited a known Porn site. I should have known better then to log on to the Republican National Committee site.

Kent

9/11/2019 02:55:32 pm

MTBF, Mean Time Between Failures is not Guaranteed Time Between Failures. Someone always gets the short end of the stick. How do you tell which end of the stick is the long end?

Malware that crashes a machine to the extent that the malware itself cannot function is not very good malware.

Larry storch

9/11/2019 03:05:22 pm

To the contrary my good friend Kent, something like ransomware, which prevents the user from accessing certain files on the hard drive unless a certain code is entered, tends to function quite well and has led to many people unwilling to pay the ransom to declare euphemistically that their “computers died.”

Kent

9/11/2019 04:17:02 pm

The ransomware is functioning, by definition. Calm the heck down. As the Rules of Acquisition tell us, without the ransomware functioning there is no Latinum and hence no Umax.

LArry storch

9/11/2019 05:01:22 pm

I confess that you’ve made a good point. I hereby withdraw my previous statements and apologize to Mr. Colavito for the possible suggestion of inappropriate conduct.

E.P. Grondine

9/11/2019 11:32:19 am

Graham Hancock's latest synthesis:

https://youtu.be/GAccZ8eWhXo

My own synthesis:

https://youtu.be/TbM4vHcRyz0

My latest synthesis

9/11/2019 11:53:20 am

Your brain is dead.

Jim

9/11/2019 12:28:18 pm

E.P. Grondine:

"Man will have sex with just about anything"

Speak for yourself there E.P.

Kent

9/11/2019 12:45:26 pm

Don't forget about the sainted Mother Grondine. The Mother Teresa of sex. "Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled leprous pustule riddled masses."

E.P. Grondine

9/11/2019 11:52:30 am

I need to add here that as I pointed out in "Man and Impact in the Americas", it is very likely that Plato's tale of Atlantis preserves a faint and confused memory of an impact mega-tsunami which occurred ca 1100 BCE.

Kent

9/11/2019 12:36:57 pm

No, you really don't.

Jr. Time Lord

9/11/2019 05:51:31 pm

"...it is very likely that Plato's tale of Atlantis preserves a faint and confused memory of an impact mega-tsunami which occurred ca 1100 BCE."

I disagree. The Thera Event with multiple layers of specialized Astronomy and mathematics. I do not discount the possibility of an impact. I would concentrate more upon Icarus and Typhon. Also, an impact event is not necessarily needed. Large airburst and swarms of airbursts could disrupt civilizations just as easily.

The outline of the Tunguska Event is strikingly similar to the dispersal pattern of vitrified forts in northern Europe, as shown on two different programs on the Hitlery Channel. I guess the channel is called HC now. Hitler Cult???

E.P. Grondine

9/12/2019 11:18:03 am

Well, Jr, I am pretty certain that you are completely unfamiliar with the Mayan tale of Ah Musen Cab. And not only did the Maya not have any tale of Atlantis, they also never mentioned Icarus or Typhon.

I am also pretty certain that you are completely unfamiliar with the Cherokee tales of the Bald Mountain Impact, and the distribution of Pisgah sites.

Your unfamiliarity with these items is not my problem, as you are just one of the some seven billion people living on this planet. Think about that bell curve for a minute.

Personally, I believe that someday we will have the HTLR channel: all Hitler, all the time.

I.P. Grondinely

9/12/2019 11:40:45 am

Look Asshole,

I'm pretty sure you don't know some Mexican stories or stories from fake Indians about fake stuff, Shit for Brains.

Jr. Time Lord

9/12/2019 05:07:40 pm

Mr. Grondine,

"Well, Jr, I am pretty certain that you are completely unfamiliar with the Mayan tale of Ah Musen Cab."

You give me too little credit. I am familiar with the Mayan death God. I am also of the opinion that some of the gods, myths, and other celestial personifications refer to comets and large asteroids.

"I am also pretty certain that you are completely unfamiliar with the Cherokee tales of the Bald Mountain Impact, and the distribution of Pisgah sites."

You got me there.

'Your unfamiliarity with these items is not my problem, as you are just one of the some seven billion people living on this planet. Think about that bell curve for a minute."

Your assumptions are not my problem. Your condescending response made me feel like I was reading ArchyFantasies or Archaeological Review. Though, Mr. Feagans is getting better. Which part of the bell curve am I supposed to think about? I am in the less than 1% of all men on the entire planet six foot two or taller. There is no curve at that point.

I.P. Grondinely

9/12/2019 06:52:24 pm

Sounds like Shit for Brains doesn't know what a curve is. What do you think, Asshole?

I guess I was wrong

9/12/2019 07:38:58 pm

So much for my theory that Grondine and Anthony Warren are actually the same bird-brained psychopath.

E.P. Grondine

9/12/2019 10:38:02 pm

Hi Jr. -

"I am familiar with the Mayan death God."

Ah, but Ah Musen Cab is an entirely different divine being.

"Your condescending response made me feel like I was reading ArchyFantasies or Archaeological Review."

Good.

The NEOCam is going up soon, and the impact hazard will be resolved: no longer a hazard to humanity. May I suggest that if you want to get current, read my book "Man and Impact in the Americas".

I don't know if this is any consolation, but I have this feeling that I am too ugly for television, and certainly don't have a TV voice.
Tricky camera angles and audio post production?

Larry storch

9/12/2019 11:20:29 pm

Don’t despair my friend. As Jason pointed out in his recent review of Ancient Aliens, Giorgio Tsoukalos is gaining weight at about the same alarming rate that his hairline is receding. It won’t be long before your own distended paunch combined with your old fart Tommy Chong ponytail will appear comparatively de rigueur and the producers of pseudoscientific cable TV schlock will be lining up to hire you!

I.P. Grondinely

9/13/2019 01:35:22 am

Look Asshole.

Don't despair, you will decease soon, and take your Shit For Brains act elsewhere.

It's cute that you think your afterbirth of a book is "current" when you do not seem to be aware of recent near misses.

Bezalel

9/14/2019 04:29:10 pm

Despite how humorous these replies are getting, at least 4 or 5 of you still need to just get laid like Doc Rock or Redfern

This means you
Scales
Kent
Grondine
Warren
For God's sake find someone who will take your money despite your lame dick.

You will be less angry

Larry storch

9/15/2019 12:42:55 am

I agree with you there Mr. Bedazzled — there are some people here who definitely have not been laid since the last millennia, if not longer!

Paul

9/11/2019 12:09:09 pm

Perhaps you have looked at this option already. Is there a usb or wireless keyboard you could use with your tablet?

T. Franke link

9/11/2019 01:28:13 pm

Computer producers should gently push consumers to do automatic backups, the needed extra device and software should be part of every computer without question. But it is not the case: We live in 2019 and you still have to think about backups on your own.

Tudlaw

9/11/2019 02:48:25 pm

They should also come to everyone's house and hold everyone's hand. And every birth certificate should be bundled with its own Xerox machine. Fingerprints should be tattooed on forearms.

Backups machen frei.

Jason Colavito link

9/11/2019 03:54:49 pm

My computer does have automatic backup for some files and folders to various services like Dropbox, OneDrive, etc., but the trouble is that once you start working with multimedia files, you quickly generate more data than you can back up without paying a not insignificant amount for storage.

Kal

9/11/2019 04:03:13 pm

USB backup drives are not that expensive. You can get one with 3 terrabytes for about 60 dollars, or a very good one for about 80 bucks. Some versions are better than others, but it is worth it to have two or more to back up all of your files. Surely you don't use any more than 1T a month on these blog sites. Now if you had movie files, you might burn through one single terrabyte drive in a few months. Word files though are quite small and would fit on something like those USB thumb drive sticks, but those can get lost. They also have SD cards where you can back up some files. Surely someone could at least remove your hard drive and recover the data with a reader. They used to have those at Fry's electronics around here, but are on Amazon.

Tudlaw

9/11/2019 04:26:37 pm

The concept of having only one computer is foreign to me. Sadly the more modern or up to date the Microsoft software the more bloated the files will be.

Are there no Best Buys, are there no workhouses?

Machala

9/11/2019 06:34:01 pm

KAL, I agree...
Because I started working with "word processors" in the days of DOS and green screens, when everything had to be backed up daily on floppy discs, by force of habit I still use USB backup drives, as well as sending everything in cloud backups have my main use laptop is synced to another laptop and my tablet.

I had a computer "crash" back in the early days, causing the loss of valuable information that cost me beaucoup bucks, I learned my lessons the hard way.

A 3T USB back up drive is more than sufficient for my uses but I also transfer my completed written works to individual thumb drives.

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Tudlaw

9/11/2019 08:15:06 pm

You will be pleased to know that NAMBLA and the FBI have been furnished with your fake phone number and your fake email address.

Cestus non grata

9/12/2019 12:12:50 pm

Jason,

Might be time to go Chromebook.

You can get 2 really good ones with 4gb of ram each for about 400 bucks. Tuck one away for a rainy day.

Harold Edwards

9/13/2019 03:19:32 pm

For what is worth the data on your dead hard drive can probably be recovered. It is expensive. Check these people out:

https://trust.ontrack.com/us/pages/data-recovery/

Good luck!