Cyber-death
My computer is dying.
It has been doing so for a long time.
I've been smart enough to ask for an external hard drive for Christmas so all of my critical data is backed up. But the end is near for my dear Indigo iMac. Soon I'll have to do something with it. And then I'll buy a new Mini Mac. I'll make out like a bandit, actually. A Mini Mac for about 600 bucks (because I'm adding extra RAM) and a economy-priced flat screen LCD monitor for around $200. I'm gonna end up with a hott new compy for about $400 less than what my current one cots me when I bought it. My saving grace is that I already have a mouse and keyboard.
The hard part about parting with my current compy is that I can't have it die any time soon. But being able to co-exist with it may lead my precious computer to an early grave. I'll explain.
My hard drive is on the brink of meltdown. When hard drives get old, they get noisy. So my computer makes this whining, humming noise. It's weird. I've adapted to it over the years, but lately it's become intolerable. So I put my computer into sleep mode last night before I went to bed. The silence was deafening.
When I woke the compy back up this morning, it was...well, cranky. It made these weird noised that are best decribed as...aliens beaming microwaves into my hard drive? Or a jet engine powering up for take off? Bizarre noises that would make one think that one's computer might explode. All signs point to Very Bad Things if I continue this practice.
But I liked the quiet.
So, I can either:
-allow my cranky computer to keep me from getting a peaceful night's sleep
or
-put the computer to sleep every night and pray that it's not the "Big Sleep" when I wake it up in the morning.
The prospect of a silent room is too tempting. Sleep for the computer tonight!
I'll be damned if I put the needs of an inanimate object before my own. It's bad enough that I have to answer to the demands of a cat.
It has been doing so for a long time.
I've been smart enough to ask for an external hard drive for Christmas so all of my critical data is backed up. But the end is near for my dear Indigo iMac. Soon I'll have to do something with it. And then I'll buy a new Mini Mac. I'll make out like a bandit, actually. A Mini Mac for about 600 bucks (because I'm adding extra RAM) and a economy-priced flat screen LCD monitor for around $200. I'm gonna end up with a hott new compy for about $400 less than what my current one cots me when I bought it. My saving grace is that I already have a mouse and keyboard.
The hard part about parting with my current compy is that I can't have it die any time soon. But being able to co-exist with it may lead my precious computer to an early grave. I'll explain.
My hard drive is on the brink of meltdown. When hard drives get old, they get noisy. So my computer makes this whining, humming noise. It's weird. I've adapted to it over the years, but lately it's become intolerable. So I put my computer into sleep mode last night before I went to bed. The silence was deafening.
When I woke the compy back up this morning, it was...well, cranky. It made these weird noised that are best decribed as...aliens beaming microwaves into my hard drive? Or a jet engine powering up for take off? Bizarre noises that would make one think that one's computer might explode. All signs point to Very Bad Things if I continue this practice.
But I liked the quiet.
So, I can either:
-allow my cranky computer to keep me from getting a peaceful night's sleep
or
-put the computer to sleep every night and pray that it's not the "Big Sleep" when I wake it up in the morning.
The prospect of a silent room is too tempting. Sleep for the computer tonight!
I'll be damned if I put the needs of an inanimate object before my own. It's bad enough that I have to answer to the demands of a cat.
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~liz