October 24, 2003
Computer Failure
Note to self. Don't try an upgrade an operating system 2 hours before you're due to leave to get on a plane. The laptop seemed to crash half way through the upgrade and had been behaving very strangely since. I decided the easiest thing to do was not to shut it down incase it wouldn't start up again. So finally after 3.5 days of conference noting like a demon, the G3 Powerbook finally crapped out and lost it's operating system. I don't know where, but it's gone la la now. I have more handwritten notes to type up from the last seminar. Will do that tomorrow and take it to the doctor.
I'm in Boulder with my Brother now, and he's got LOTS of computers so I shouldn't be stuck for an internet fix for the next week. Yay!
Posted by Ant at October 24, 2003 07:34 AM | TrackBackI reckon installing Panther 2 hours before you left on a plane would have deserved this kind of punishment. But this was just lowly 10.2.8 coming down the wire over Apple's Software Update.
The irony is that I was keen to upgrade away from 10.2.6 which was already there because I'd heard on good authority that it was unstable! Hmph.
It all just reminds me of Hunter Cressel's "Crash Different" found here if you haven't seen it [ http://www.mit.edu/people/mikeho/crash.shtml ]. I have been malled by the F*cking little Jack-Russell terrier jumping up at me from the bottom of the screen. Who was to know that little bastard had such sharp teeth?
Posted by: Ant at October 24, 2003 07:29 PMwas it Panther you naughty boy?
Posted by: matt at October 24, 2003 04:25 PM