May 25
My computer’s had hard-drive replacement surgery
Cats: geeky things|And I’m happy to report that the patient has fully recovered and is presently kicking butt on a brand new 1 terabyte hard drive.
W00t! You can almost feel the fresh air and the smile coming off my computer.
I knew things were getting dicey when the pie for my old 80GB C-drive was almost entirely blue. That’s almost full. Not good.
When I first got it four years ago 80GB seemed infinite. And now, 80 Gigs seems piddly. That would be Moore’s Law of exponentially increasing computer power at work.
Now my pie is almost entirely pink. That’s almost empty. That is good.
For the record, I have my data backed up on an external drive and on my Homeserver. Not bullet-proof because I’m still all on-site, but I can sleep at night for now.
May 25th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
1 000 000 000 000 bytes!!!! Woo hooo!! 1000 gig!
You should get a T-shirt.
May 25th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
1 terabyte. Lucky you.
May 25th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
You mentioned “all on-site”… that reminded me of when I was writing my theses. I’d back up those suckers everywhere I had room. CDs, school drives, USB drives, multiple computers. I was not about to risk losing everything and having to rewrite and redo experiments.
To this day I’m still finding these back copies in places I didn’t even remember having back then. Can data reproduce itself, do you think? And more importantly, does it migrate?
May 26th, 2009 at 1:01 am
Huzzah for pink pies! You be regaling us with your witticisms for many years now.
May 26th, 2009 at 10:37 am
“Not bullet-proof because I’m still all on-site”
I beg to differ, it is a Typist dojo after all and save for a guided missle, impenetrable.
May 26th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Dick , great idea, I should get the tee – two pies, one blue
and one pink 
Allison, does it terafy you? Oink!
Ryan, too funny, at least you were backing up, I lost a couple chapters when writing my thesis
Barbara, you can come over for slice of pink pie anytime
May 26th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Cormac, true, I live in a house of two brown belts, one green. I am a white belt drop out though, but I am a deadly practitioner of yoga. Does that count?
May 26th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
“I am a white belt drop out though, but I am a deadly practitioner of yoga. Does that count?”
Naw, remember? You’re the black belt in Typist Fu. An Olivetti to the opponent’s head and an IBM Selectric to the toes.
May 27th, 2009 at 7:38 am
Cormac, that should be a new sub-genre of the martial arts movie