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May. 8th, 2011 09:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeI'm slowly reinstalling all my programs on my computer and I've come to realize something: Computers are the new dragon hoard.
No, really. I'm sitting here curled up on my install files and my software and my documents and so on like I have a proprietary right to them, and if the web doesn't cough up the right install files to which I have a product key and so on then there will be fucking murders. Rarr, spit flame, chomp knights, etcetera. Sadly, the world doesn't work this way. If I'd been a smart dragon I would have downloaded at least one install file that I didn't and then I wouldn't be having this problem. I would also have kept the CDs with the product key and then I wouldn't be looking at either going with open source versions which, admittedly, aren't that bad, or having to re-buy software I've bought twice already. Admittedly, there's also always the risk that the software won't work with the advanced hardware I now have. It happens. It's annoying, but it happens. I don't think that'll happen here. It hasn't been that long, has it?
I'm really happy with my new desktop, though. It's nice, it's clean, I've managed to work out organizing at least half of the small office nook we initially set up in the apartment, over the week I'll work on cleaning the rest of it. Which is part of what that whole install file business is about. I like having my backups where I know I can lay my tiny hands on them. Clean workspace, you know where everything is.
Cluttered workspace like most of us have, and you spend fifteen, twenty minutes throwing shit around going it was just here I just put it down where the hell did I put it.
Ugh. Maybe I'll get very lucky and someone will give me a shitpot of money for my birthday. In which case I'll probably sit on it anyway because I hate paying for something yet again that I've already paid for unless I absolutely have to. I didn't upgrade Dragon until it refused to work for me with Vista (damn you, Vista) and I didn't upgrade Word until you simply couldn't install the old one for love or money, again, because of OS versions and changes and new OSs. Stupid damn technology march. It isn't even always improved.
I'm going to be fussing about this for several days. I have a huge hard drive's worth of shit to go through, not to mention what didn't make it to the hard drive and is still on my somewhat functional laptop. I've decided, as I do every time I change computers, to go through my old stories folder and sort them into comprehensible things, maybe edit some old stories and collect them into anthologies or something. This might even happen this time, in my copious free time. Hah, what free time. Still, it might be productive of some good.
Seriously, does anyone out there use any Microsoft Projects other than Word for their daily life? What about OneNote? What does it do? If anything useful?
Bleh. I've gotten most of my free programs or the ones I can well lay hands on install files for installed already. I got my keyboards up, and a lot of the rest of it will depend on when my USB hub gets here and I can plug in quite a few more things at once. And I should really stop trying to think about things like this at an hour of the night when I'm scattered and trying to brain and failing miserably. On the plus side, I've got almost all my words done and everything else is ready for tomorrow morning, when we'll start that whole getting up at 5 am and writing thing. Whee?
I do love new computers, but sometimes the software companies drive me up a wall and back down again. Can't you just provide your old product key and get an upgrade at cheaper cost? I mean, I know you can with some things, but why can't you do that more of the time? Ugh. (And the real question, why can't I stay bloody organized and keep track of my damn software and its keys. That's the real question here. Maybe I'll fail better this time.)
Oh crap. I was going to look into webspace and webpage hosting and so on, since my old site hosting, um, provider, sideways glance slink off into the shadows, has kind of gone away. I mean, it's still there, it's just a bit Schroedinger's right now. Bugger. Something else to think about.
No, really. I'm sitting here curled up on my install files and my software and my documents and so on like I have a proprietary right to them, and if the web doesn't cough up the right install files to which I have a product key and so on then there will be fucking murders. Rarr, spit flame, chomp knights, etcetera. Sadly, the world doesn't work this way. If I'd been a smart dragon I would have downloaded at least one install file that I didn't and then I wouldn't be having this problem. I would also have kept the CDs with the product key and then I wouldn't be looking at either going with open source versions which, admittedly, aren't that bad, or having to re-buy software I've bought twice already. Admittedly, there's also always the risk that the software won't work with the advanced hardware I now have. It happens. It's annoying, but it happens. I don't think that'll happen here. It hasn't been that long, has it?
I'm really happy with my new desktop, though. It's nice, it's clean, I've managed to work out organizing at least half of the small office nook we initially set up in the apartment, over the week I'll work on cleaning the rest of it. Which is part of what that whole install file business is about. I like having my backups where I know I can lay my tiny hands on them. Clean workspace, you know where everything is.
Cluttered workspace like most of us have, and you spend fifteen, twenty minutes throwing shit around going it was just here I just put it down where the hell did I put it.
Ugh. Maybe I'll get very lucky and someone will give me a shitpot of money for my birthday. In which case I'll probably sit on it anyway because I hate paying for something yet again that I've already paid for unless I absolutely have to. I didn't upgrade Dragon until it refused to work for me with Vista (damn you, Vista) and I didn't upgrade Word until you simply couldn't install the old one for love or money, again, because of OS versions and changes and new OSs. Stupid damn technology march. It isn't even always improved.
I'm going to be fussing about this for several days. I have a huge hard drive's worth of shit to go through, not to mention what didn't make it to the hard drive and is still on my somewhat functional laptop. I've decided, as I do every time I change computers, to go through my old stories folder and sort them into comprehensible things, maybe edit some old stories and collect them into anthologies or something. This might even happen this time, in my copious free time. Hah, what free time. Still, it might be productive of some good.
Seriously, does anyone out there use any Microsoft Projects other than Word for their daily life? What about OneNote? What does it do? If anything useful?
Bleh. I've gotten most of my free programs or the ones I can well lay hands on install files for installed already. I got my keyboards up, and a lot of the rest of it will depend on when my USB hub gets here and I can plug in quite a few more things at once. And I should really stop trying to think about things like this at an hour of the night when I'm scattered and trying to brain and failing miserably. On the plus side, I've got almost all my words done and everything else is ready for tomorrow morning, when we'll start that whole getting up at 5 am and writing thing. Whee?
I do love new computers, but sometimes the software companies drive me up a wall and back down again. Can't you just provide your old product key and get an upgrade at cheaper cost? I mean, I know you can with some things, but why can't you do that more of the time? Ugh. (And the real question, why can't I stay bloody organized and keep track of my damn software and its keys. That's the real question here. Maybe I'll fail better this time.)
Oh crap. I was going to look into webspace and webpage hosting and so on, since my old site hosting, um, provider, sideways glance slink off into the shadows, has kind of gone away. I mean, it's still there, it's just a bit Schroedinger's right now. Bugger. Something else to think about.