my flash drive got bent when the cats knocked my laptop off. I can't access my work. I am hoping that the chip can be retrieved. I will be going to the engineer tomorrow. Wish me luck, and my apologies if I am late in posting the last 2 tranches of The Reprobate's Redemption. My editor has a copy, thank goodness so I can re-create it if need behttps://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117067#msg-117067Mon, 25 May 2026 20:04:43 +0100 Phorum 5.2.22 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117248#msg-117248 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117248#msg-117248 Sarah Waldock Tea RoomThu, 23 Jul 2015 20:09:58 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117169#msg-117169 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117169#msg-117169
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One, some health benefits are realized by getting up from the desk chairs frequently. It help circulation, as I understand. Most of our modern careers require that we sit at desks instead of following mule teams steering plows, so our blood just does not circulate as well. Maybe the body try to compensate with higher pressures.

Second and with number one, put your tea cups, coffee pots, juice glasses, &c. on a table that is too far away to roll, assuming castered chairs, and reach. This will force getting up once in a while. If you have hot drinks, incredible for this kind of weather we are getting in the American West, use a little warming plate. The device has a switch that need some weight to turn on the warmer, so that an empty cup get turned off.

Third: I find the USB thumb drives and connections to spinning drive units to be most effective back ups. The USB thumb drives are cheap enough to have about six rotating in service; the oldest become the next back up. One or two of them, as you please, can be taken elsewhere for off-site back up. They work well for work migration, and if neccessary between two desktops. BTW, I cannot imagine a thumb drive being the sole repository of files unless the machine's drive went FUBAR. My essential files get thumb drive migrated from the primary to the secondary set, so that keep three copies of the most recent work.

A couple asides: As laptops replace desktops, the laptop's battery tend to eliminate the need for Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS). For desktops, get one. Especially if your electric service is flaky. If not, then they should be load-tested once in a while: That mean, pull the plug to the UPS and work the set and be ready to do one of two things, as you choose, when the urgency warning horn sound. Shut down the computer or plug the UPS back in.

I have no useful clue as to the helpful fuzzy buddies. When Tabby make the parade, from the number pad to the [Caps Lock] end and turn to starboard, she may have shown her displeasure at not being the center of attention for so long.]]> Rae Elaine Tea RoomThu, 16 Jul 2015 15:34:29 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117145#msg-117145 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117145#msg-117145 Rae Elaine Tea RoomThu, 16 Jul 2015 15:09:14 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117121#msg-117121 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117121#msg-117121 Sarah Waldock Tea RoomWed, 15 Jul 2015 16:41:45 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117120#msg-117120 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117120#msg-117120
It would be a help if orphan anachronyms and initial letters were spelled out at first use. How many know FUBAR? Fouled Up Beyond Any Repair. And I cleaned up the fouled...]]> Rae Elaine Tea RoomWed, 15 Jul 2015 15:45:48 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117112#msg-117112 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117112#msg-117112 Sarah Waldock Tea RoomWed, 15 Jul 2015 11:25:49 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117110#msg-117110 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117110#msg-117110Yup, I'm thinking of having two small hard drives, one to back up to weekly that lives in the drawer beside my sofa where it can't be catted.... as we don't hace a wonderwoman of the quanta at our fingertips.... friends have rallied round marvellously with copies of recent work they've been reading through. I haven't heard anything so I hope no news is good news....]]> Sarah Waldock Tea RoomTue, 14 Jul 2015 21:28:41 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117109#msg-117109 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117109#msg-117109Anyways, I looked at those those external hard drives that you plug in and leave (duct tape is an excellent idea, by the way) but ended up getting a larger one that attaches via USB cable. It's not quite as convenient (I plug it in about once a week or so and it copies the laptop hard drive in the background), but I like having a copy of everything someplace separate from my laptop in case another cup of tea gets tipped-- I was worried it would fry both laptop and backup at the same time.

My laptop suffered far more than I did from the hot tea vs. cat incident: the space bar and touch pad were never really the same. I'm just glad that no one was around at the time-- it was winter and I shucked off my skirt (thick & wooly) before the hot tea soaked through, but suspect that I looked rather comical jumping around shaking my laptop upside down, trying to get the tea to drain out the keyboard, in just my knickers...

-Jean]]> Jean M. Tea RoomTue, 14 Jul 2015 20:40:29 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117092#msg-117092 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117092#msg-117092
I've had the casing bitten off before now, and used a mix of superglue and duct-tape; I've had one fall apart [duct-tape] and I've had one less drastically bent, so I could get it to connect so long as I jammed it in hard and then held it in with blutac. I'm getting sick of flashdrives, they may be idiot proof but they are NOT cat-proof. I've ordered a small external hard drive for twenty quid, 120gb which face it is less than 4x the cost of a 32gb flash drive. And I can attach it with - you guessed - duct-tape.

I hope your lap and surroundings were not too badly scalded. Those are seriously bad regions to have blisters.]]> Sarah Waldock Tea RoomMon, 13 Jul 2015 23:05:04 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117090#msg-117090 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117090#msg-117090
Now, ask me about the time that the furball head-butted a cup of hot tea out of my hand and onto both lap and laptop!

Good luck!
-Jean]]> Jean M. Tea RoomMon, 13 Jul 2015 19:34:20 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117087#msg-117087 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117087#msg-117087It's in the post going to the data doctor... I can reproduce 95% of it, but it'll take time... and the loss of the updates to Jane and Caleb that I just posted, and a few other WIPs with a little bit added that 'didn't seem enough to back up'.... but at least the current WIP, a sequel to Elinor's Endowment [nearly there, on chapter 24] was open in Word so I could save it. Phew!]]> Sarah Waldock Tea RoomMon, 13 Jul 2015 19:20:27 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117077#msg-117077 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117077#msg-117077 nicolette Tea RoomMon, 13 Jul 2015 13:24:11 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117073#msg-117073 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117073#msg-117073And of course I just blew some royalties on some expensive non-stick kitchen ware! still, what it costs will be worth it, it has 10 years of research on it, some of which but not all is backed up. I should back up more than monthly.... especially when I've done heavy research....
I am replacing the damn flash drive with a small external hard drive which i can duct-tape to the laptop... I've had one flash drive partly eaten by a cat before now [she bit right through the plastic covering] and one that bent by putting it in [didn't buy that make again] and I'm sick of them.
So, in about 9 hours, the hubby is off down the road for me... fingers crossed....]]> Sarah Waldock Tea RoomSun, 12 Jul 2015 23:36:01 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117072#msg-117072 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117072#msg-117072 Agnes Beatrix Tea RoomSun, 12 Jul 2015 23:19:35 +0100 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117067#msg-117067 https://www.dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?4,117067,117067#msg-117067 Sarah Waldock Tea RoomSun, 12 Jul 2015 19:02:55 +0100