This picture of the walker with the U lock was one of Mark Jenkins’s street installations. Although I haven’t seen the others, I’ll be on the lookout for them in the future.
This picture of the walker with the U lock was one of Mark Jenkins’s street installations. Although I haven’t seen the others, I’ll be on the lookout for them in the future.
No matter how much future proofing you try to do, one day, you’re going to kick yourself for saying something like, “Oh, I’m never going to need gigabit ethernet at home.”
This will be on par with saying something like, “Why would I need more than 640k of ram?”
I recall it, somewhat. It was the mid eighties. I wore a lot of black and white. Pants were cuffed. Girls were wearing jelly bracelets and lots of neon. I do not remember opening the box it was contained in, or plugging in power or monitor cables. The keyboard was directly connected to the rest of the machine.
The machine (a beige box) was placed in a wooden hutch. In front of that hutch was one of those chairs that you had to kneel in.
I’m not sure how much it cost, but probably it was expensive. I don’t know what convinced my parents to buy one. I don’t know the reasoning. A lot of those details are lost to the ravages of time. Continue reading
It’s a good thing I got all those photos back because, boy, look at those gems you would have missed.
In the tradition of all made up holidays, June has been declared Backup Awareness Month by Seagate and Maxtor. Who knew? I certainly didn’t, but I really wish I had known.
I will now recant to you a tale of woe and terror. One involving a hard drive, ten years of photos, documents, and home movies.
I get up one day and think to myself, “I should really back up the home directory on my laptop.” So I made a shared folder on my network at home, and booted up my laptop.
Or at least, I pressed the power button on my laptop and listened to the hard drive make a “hrrrgh” noise over and over. I cycle the power. No dice. Slightly nervous now, I try booting from CD, which works, but then the system can’t find the hard drive. I grabbed a firewire cable and Morgan’s iBook. Target disk mode fails. Zapped the PRAM. In all of my attempts, the hard drive refused to boot, or even be recognized.
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