So I’m a bit peeved today. My Dell CPS 1210 bit the big one. It’s only a year and a half old. Luckily, unlike last time, I had everything backed up and am in the process of rebuilding the machine from scratch. So far, I’m 24 hours into it and have only had one blue screen of death experience since I reformatted.
On the upside, it’s given me a chance to try out SugarSync (www.sugarsync.com) on the advise of a colleague. It works well so far, but does take awhile to get everything sync’d. As I have no other machines in my network currently, I am just dumping files into the cloud. One day I may have something more sophisticated but for now, here we are.
The BIG frustration has been this %^&$#%^& external hard drive I bought last time my laptop died. After a few weeks, my machine failed to recognize it. Since then, I have had it replaced with no luck, and finally put it away for a year. I took it out after I rebuilt, hoping it would be all better since I had a fresh machine. Not so much. As it turns out, it’s a common problem with this drive and model, and apparently it’s a Vista issue. I’ve never had trouble with my other devices, so I am not so sure. It’s going to make me crazy.
In the midst of transferring files, I viewed a video from MIT’s Fluid Interface Lab on a new technology that would project data and an interface on any object and allow you to interact with it’s meta data using only natural motions. Very cool! Maybe there is a future afterall.
Back to pulling my hair out.
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