Bloody PC

Saturday, January 24th, 2004 12:50 pm
[personal profile] tamaranth
I think I may have found out what is happening to some of the email that never reaches me.

Just now -- in the middle of an unexceptional websurf / LJ catch-up & comment -- a new email arrived. And I saw who it was from and the title: but then the hard drive made 'waking up' noises (not sure why it was asleep in the first place) and the whole thing crashed. (This happens at least once a day). Losing all the pages I was looking at, the comment I was halfway through, the file into which I'd pasted links ... and, as it turns out, the new email -- which is nowhere to be found, neither on the Avnet server nor on the PC.

This is getting beyond a joke. Hope the tax demands arrive soon so I know whether I have anything left over to buy a new PC. If not, I'll have to give up on LJ and the rest of this Internet thing for a while: the hardware simply isn't up to it.

Date: Saturday, January 24th, 2004 04:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com
Would you like to borrow my old pc for a while? It's only a 3 year old Celeron running Win 98 with 128MB of RAM but it can handle mail, chat and internet happily (and indeed Photoshop and Excel simulataneously).

Date: Saturday, January 24th, 2004 05:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tamaranth.livejournal.com
that would be terribly kind of you! And would certainly get me over the sense of not being able to keep up ... I may well take you up on that ... have very little time between now and next weekend but maybe we can discuss details at the Lab?

Date: Saturday, January 24th, 2004 05:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com
No problem. I'll discuss transfer arrangements with Kate when she picks me up in a minute. :)

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