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Hardware Upgrade

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I’ve been postponing it for ages but while I was working on the template design of my new business blog the application started to fail on me. It kept crashing with one 3Gig file: I realised I had to install the whole package again. So while I was at it I thought I might as well put in the new gear: a 500Gb HD and 2x2Gb of RAM. What I thought would take me an hour in the end almost took me two days. It wasn’t the hardware causing me problems, that all went quite smooth, it was the software and I decided to do a clean system install.

Of course after the installation I found out that files were missing, mostly printer descriptions and prefs and although I did make some backups it was no point trying to sort out what was missing and where it was supposed to be on the system. I deleted all the Creative Suite applications and installed them again and although I still have to sort out stuff on my HDs and take care of archiving, my machine runs fine without any problems. I now have an extra HD to backup all the client files in case one of my LaCie Porsches fails.

It’s been a busy two days but I’m quite content with the results and I know I will be grateful for doing this if I was to experience a serious crash in the future… I’m so happy with my beast… *sigh*

:)

See the dirt? *EEEEW*

More dirt *YUK*

New HD with special ‘drive guides’ that were stored next to the HD bays [RAM modules top left]

New HD in its bay, haven’t connected power cable yet, just the data cable

New RAM modules installed, 8 slots all full *hehe*

Short Update

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This week has been hectic so far and I will be happy when it’s Friday night and I will be asleep. Just too much going on at the moment. I promised PE. to test his project for him last Monday and Tuesday and ended up testing today instead. I have been working on some projects myself, I had to send out a parcel today and ended up faffing about with some pain in the A. Customs Declaration that I found on the Royal Mail website last night. I have finally written a long postponed letter and sent it off to the Lowlands and I had to organise piles of paperwork for my interview Friday. I seem to be running out of time and there’s only 24 hours in a day isn’t it?

I’ve written about six long emails to friends who have been waiting for my reply for at least two weeks. I’m blessed with patient friends though so they won’t start nagging because they know what my life can be like at times. Good news is that MvdM. arranged eight tickets to see Amy Winehouse in December if she won’t be too pissed to perform that is. I’m really looking forward to that since it will be my first gig to attend in the UK/London and we’ll be going with a group of people so it’s gonna be fun with a capital F! I’m also slowly recovering from a serious bug that I had for three weeks. I can finally eat and drink again, it’s a very effective way of losing weight if you need to… *hehe*

I have deleted my old blog *yes* and made backups of that old Movable Type installation [3.3.4] so I have a reference still in case this version [4.0] is going to fail on me. So far so good though and I’m not complaining, just yet. My Porsche drive seems to be doing fine after a format. I’ve organised all my stuff in a more efficient way although I still need to burn about another 100 DVDs to archive some clients/files. I’m slowly getting there…