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I realize health issues concern us from time to time but I am becomming concerned that three of my favorite authors haven't produce a line in over a month. There is much adventure left to be had in "Somewhere Else Entirely", "Julina of Blackstone" & "The White Wolf". Let's get on with it, if you're able!
Best,
DJ
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Not missing, just distracted
I'm doing the best I can, but regrettably that doesn't amount to very much at the moment.
There's just too much Real Life going on and it's difficult to find the time to write... the plot's there, all right, but it is stuffed inside my head.
I have lost two computers recently and a third, the one that records all our TV, is showing some strange signs of bit rot on the hard disks so I've had to focus on fixing that. Priorities, you know? I'm recording all kinds of interesting things but there's just no time to watch any of it. Yet. And with Christmas coming up, things are only going to get worse.
So I've been spending time trying to download Intel drivers and FreeDOS and other tools and nothing wants to play ball. SEE #95 has about 3,700 words written so far and if I could find the time I can probably double that at one sitting.
Unfortunately, tomorrow I'm off to the clinic so that's a whole day gone splat. I plan to write some today but I'm feeling really tired and I just don't know how far I can get.
Rest assured that SEE will continue to the originally planned end. It grieves me that I have suffered medical problems just when things started to get interesting but them's the breaks. I'm still around to look in at BCTS but generally only briefly morning and night.
Thank you for your concern. Are we likely to see anything from your own fair hand in the near future?
Penny
Distracted
It grieves me even more that you are suffering medical problems on top of computer problems. If you are having hard drive problems, I hope all SEE related material is backed up on an external hard drive.
As far as tales issuing forth from my type in the cracks fingers, I don't see that happening. I would be afraid of kicking the bucket before I could finish and I'm not much a story teller in any case.
Get well soon and that's an order!
Best,
DJ
Retired First Sergeant
Tool to recover bit-rot
A friend of mine recomended I get "Hiren's Boot CD" to check the health of my hard drives. He has been working as SysAdmin in IT for over 15 years and uses it all the time to recover hard drives. I have been using it now for about 7 years on my own network computers. And since then I have not lost any data to a hard drive crash.
Google the title in quotes, download the ISO file and burn it to a CD/DVD. The just boot directly from the CD/DVD.
Hopefully you can revitalize your tired hard drive(s) enough, so that you can copy the files over to a new hard drive.
Jessica
Hard Drives
My DVR is a completely separate system to the main server I use to write on. It is on 24/7 and does nothing but record and serve TV.
It has five disks currently, a small system disk and 4 x 500Gb disks used solely for media storage. Problem is, when I get a hard error on one disk and remove it temporarily, the fault moves to one of the other drives... randomly. This means it might be the power supply or the motherboard, or, possibly, a bad batch of drives.
I've replaced the power supply with a brand-new, overspecced one and for now everything is quiet. I'm going to put that problem on the back burner to concentrate on several others that have surfaced recently.
...and I have to find time to write, obviously.
Penny