you have to love computers. let's be honest we have no choice. if we didn't love (or at least think they were ok) we would go mad in the modern world, where little remains untouched by the silicon kiss of the computer. more and more we are ensnared by the internet of things.
right now i am having my own little love hate battle with technology. of course i am losing.
the last few years have seen me move to mobile computing as a necessity rather than a choice (and shamefully i have to admit that this is because of my own personal failings and not something i can blame on a central processing unit). of course with using laptops and tablets there are inherent problems - such loss, theft, breakage and system failure.
so the tablet i have been using as decided to die - and from what i can make out it is the little bit that connects the outside world of reality to the inside world of circuits. (oddly this is always the bit that goes on my external hard drives - yes those things you are supposed to be able to carry around with you break at that bit that connects them to stuff you can use).
with the decline of one bit of kit comes the arrival of a new bit of kit. joy.
then when the excitement dies down you remember you have to set up all the links you need to websites and such like.
it is then you remember just how stupid you have been in relying on the computer to do its job and have stored all the passwords in it and not committed them to a piece of paper...
after many hours of trawling through emails i have found some passwords. more to be rescued. none of this helped by having to use a sluggish-not-my-own-laptop that seems to sometimes work and sometimes not, or it could be the internet connection that is at fault. the problem being is you are never quite sure what is causing the problem because click as you might on the button nothing works is it the physical laptop is having a problem? is there a lag in the connection? is the website not working? something else? a combination? who knows? but it does cause you to spit feathers and cry in frustration.
maybe lesson learnt: write them down.
we'll see at the next system failure, because i know there will be one.
right now i am having my own little love hate battle with technology. of course i am losing.
the last few years have seen me move to mobile computing as a necessity rather than a choice (and shamefully i have to admit that this is because of my own personal failings and not something i can blame on a central processing unit). of course with using laptops and tablets there are inherent problems - such loss, theft, breakage and system failure.
so the tablet i have been using as decided to die - and from what i can make out it is the little bit that connects the outside world of reality to the inside world of circuits. (oddly this is always the bit that goes on my external hard drives - yes those things you are supposed to be able to carry around with you break at that bit that connects them to stuff you can use).
with the decline of one bit of kit comes the arrival of a new bit of kit. joy.
then when the excitement dies down you remember you have to set up all the links you need to websites and such like.
it is then you remember just how stupid you have been in relying on the computer to do its job and have stored all the passwords in it and not committed them to a piece of paper...
after many hours of trawling through emails i have found some passwords. more to be rescued. none of this helped by having to use a sluggish-not-my-own-laptop that seems to sometimes work and sometimes not, or it could be the internet connection that is at fault. the problem being is you are never quite sure what is causing the problem because click as you might on the button nothing works is it the physical laptop is having a problem? is there a lag in the connection? is the website not working? something else? a combination? who knows? but it does cause you to spit feathers and cry in frustration.
maybe lesson learnt: write them down.
we'll see at the next system failure, because i know there will be one.
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