{"id":2208,"date":"2010-09-24T17:55:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T23:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2010-09-24T17:55:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T23:55:37","slug":"this-is-wrong-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2010\/09\/24\/this-is-wrong-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Not the kind of surprise I was really looking for, but thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/stills\/movies\/colossus--colossus.jpg\" title=\"Forbin = headed for the bin\" class=alignright \/>So&#8230; two things.  As of today I&#8217;ve got a few days off, for the first time in a year that didn&#8217;t involve anyone dying.  After the past two weeks at work, I can safely predict that someone <em>would&#8217;ve<\/em> been dying if I hadn&#8217;t gotten a few days off.  Even the expanded-hours training schedule we&#8217;ve been on lately was truncated today, so I got to go home today after &#8211; get this! &#8211; only eight hours.<\/p>\n<p>And then the fun really began.  I get home and bring my two desktop machines out of standby, and my older machine &#8211; a Dell Dimension I&#8217;ve had since &#8217;05 that has served faithfully even though I sometimes think the best thing for it would be a reformat of the ol&#8217; C drive and a solid kick right between the registry &#8211; sounded like it was gonna freakin&#8217; <em>take off<\/em>.  The fan keeps getting louder&#8230; and the pitch of this loud whine it&#8217;s making keeps rising&#8230; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2010\/03\/16\/the-incredible-melting-avid\/\">I had a bit of a flashback<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So I did now what I did then: pulled the plug out of the back.<\/p>\n<p>Bad move.  When I waited a couple of minutes and reconnected the power cord to the power supply, the thing stayed asleep when I tried to wake it up.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s pause for a moment and see what all this machine does that I don&#8217;t\/can&#8217;t do on any other machines in the house:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My entire DVD-burning capacity is tied up in this machine.<\/li>\n<li>This machine plays cartoons out to a TV (hooked up as a secondary monitor) for Evan.<\/li>\n<li>This machine has my entire music\/audio collection on it, and the vast majority of my digital video files (all Doctor Who and Star Trek, and spinoffs thereof, reside on the F drive on this machine).<\/li>\n<li>This machine has the master DVD ISO files, and all of the master video files, for all of my DVD productions to date.<\/li>\n<li>This machine has my (half-dozen or so) books-in-progress on it.<\/li>\n<li>This machine is my LAN hub.<\/li>\n<li>This machine has all of my photos of my son on it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/stills\/trek-tos\/054-ultimate-computer.jpg\" title=\"M5\" class=alignright \/>Okay, I think you get it: double-plus-non-good.  Fortunately, after about half an hour of trying to call friends in the know, I tried to power the Dell up again&#8230; and this time, it woke up.<\/p>\n<p>I think the plan is to keep it awake until further notice, giving me a little bit of time to buy a new power supply, without it being an oh<em>shit<\/em>gottageta<em>new<\/em>one<em>now<\/em> thing.  But I&#8217;m under no illusion that it&#8217;ll stay awake forever waiting for me to finish that search at a leisurely pace.<\/p>\n<p>This has not been my year for power supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; two things. As of today I&#8217;ve got a few days off, for the first time in a year that didn&#8217;t involve anyone dying. After the past two weeks at work, I can safely predict that someone would&#8217;ve been dying if I hadn&#8217;t gotten a few days off. Even the expanded-hours training schedule we&#8217;ve been on lately was truncated today, so I got to go home today after &#8211; get this! &#8211; only eight hours. And then the fun really began. I get home and bring my two desktop machines out of standby, and my older machine &#8211; a Dell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}