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What's it like to not have a PC to use?

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:26:06 GMT

These days going a day without a PC is like, say, going without drinking a glass of water or having that first beautiful cup of coffee in the morning. Coooofffffeeeee, mmmmm. Yeah I'm a coffee nut. In any case, since the demise of my PC I have realized how dependant I am on that thing, and the data contained therein.

I would like to mention some of the things I have done, to prepare for such a disaster to happen, who know maybe it will help you out if this ever happens. I have multiple drives in my PC, split up into partitions that handle the OS install only, and then other partitions that handle my data only (mp3s, downloads, programs, email). Other partitions I install my programs to. However that's all fine and dandy to say I do that, but the question that most people ask is how do you do that?

I use two programs now, both by Acronis. To partition my drives, I use Disk Director by Acronis, and to perform my drive recovery I use True Image Home by Acronis also. In combination these tools are very powerful. By the way I am in no way affiliated with Acronis, I just enjoy telling others of tools that actually work and do what they say they are supposed to do. I have most of my drives backed up (or imaged) already, to an external drive, which does work thankfully.

Like I mentioned in my earlier post, the failure couldn't have come at a worse time so I am in limbo at the moment. I am not the sort to beg, so I won't. However I will place a PayPal Donate Button in each post, that way if anyone is in a giving mood, it's a click (or two) away.

(This links to another page, Live Spaces don't like PayPal links)

Thanks,
Jason

My PC has officially bit the dust!!

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:19:44 GMT

Well it has been awhile since I posted, hasn't it. I see that some do check it every now and then. Well, life has been busy, so many things going on right now. And to add to it all, my one and only PC has churned its last byte, played its last MP3, flown its last virtual flight.

At the worst possible time too. So, I thought and thought and thought about how in the world am I going to replace it? You see, I have been working on a little project for this blog, and a sister site to host Tech Tips, for building and troubleshooting basic PC issues, Flightsimming info and more. Additionally I lost quite a bit of data for the project, I'll need to redo. Leaving me in a precarious situation I had not planned for. Isn't that always the case? Anyway let me end the sob story and get to the point, I need to ask a favor, I've thought about this long and hard, and figured I'd put this up, and hope for the best.

There is a link below, that says it all. Feel free to use it if you want, fell free to ignore it. I will absolutely appreciate anything I receive, and rest assured I will post a step by step article on the build of the system. Any funds received will be used ONLY for the purpose of building a new PC, I'll stop the donations at that point.

Please click here to begin your PayPal Donation.

Thanks for the help, I'll update very soon on the progress.

I am not the only one at least....

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:46:29 GMT

Steve seems to have had an issue with spam too. Brave man!!

http://www.steve-lacey.com/blogarchives/2007/11/your_attention.shtml

Well I tried!!

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:59:36 GMT

In my spare time, which by the way is almost at nil right now. I setup a blog on my domain JasonRitchie.com. Which you can see now has just a logo. The experiment really didn't go too well, as the spam bot's hit it with a vengeance and were dropping thousands of comments a day. I didn't have time to clean them out, so I wiped it.

I will most likely make this my home until I have the following:

1. TIME

2. TIME

3. More TIME

4. Researched a better blog software suite, most likely Wordpress.

As far as what's happening on my end? Well the house is less than a month away from being ready, we'll be VERY happy when its done. I'll then have a proper office and a proper desk. Space is way too limited where we are at the moment.

Later,
Jay

Things moving along....

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:03:47 GMT

Spaces is nice, but for the ideas and things I would like to do, I am thinking I need my own space.

I present my future albeit messy home http://www.jasonritchie.com, I may think about keeping ABWAIN as the name, we'll see. Please also disregard the 'crap' on my main page. I quite possibly will have multiple blogs for FlightSim, PC stuff, and PC building tutorials. I am still banging around a few ideas.

Until then though this will be my home, and I'll post here a little more often. Seeing as I had a burst of visitors on my last post. Does feel good someone reads my jibberish!! :)

Till then!

Jay

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Moving bites!!

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:21:22 GMT

I haven't been blogging because I have been moving. Did I mention moving bites!?

Well finally today we are free and clear of our apartment, and have taken residence up in temporary quarters until our new abode is complete. I cringe at the thought of doing it all over again, and in the winter.

In any case I hope to be busy real soon doing some cool things, for now though I am pooped from nearly 5 hours of driving today. Will update on a few things this weekend, that is if anyone is reading this still....lol

CYA!!

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