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Sep. 18th, 2008 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
laliginOld laptop still dead. Apparently PC World can't recover anything from the hard drive. At all.
So I've lost every document I was working on, can't find the backup disc (which is very out of date in any case) and... oh yes. I had stuff backed up on another disc, which corrupted randomly a while ago. I had EVERYTHING backed up on my original USB drive, which... corrupted randomly a while ago. And I didn't get round to putting the whole lot on the new USB, because I wasn't sure about viruses or whatever.
So. I have... my Torchwood fic, because I carried nearly all of that around on the USB anyway.
And that's about it. Anything I was sent over MSN is gone. If I've deleted the emails where anything else was sent... it's gone.
Anything I didn't handwrite and then type up, but rather typed straight, is gone. And if I did handwrite it, it's in among the hundreds of thousands of words worth of paper that I need to retype anyway.
All my icons are gone. All my photos are gone, unless I put them on photobucket first or emailed them to anyone.
All my music is gone. I have a stack of CDs I'm putting on the new laptop at the moment, but I no longer have any random files. Or anything from borrowed CDs.The One Winged Angel khmix. Oh, I miss that already. The Torchwood theme. My December. Bohemian Rhapsody. Toxic. Aheh. (Acquired from wonderful people! Thank you kindly.)
I'm going to be spending a lot of money on CDs, aren't I?
Downloading Open Office at the moment, because Word 2007 is evil, Vista is VILE, and Works word processor won't let me get rid of that awful, horrible, distracting taskbar at the right hand side.
Please, someone tell me how to make the Vista desktop icons a sensible size. Why do they have to be so massive? 7 down the side? I can get 15 or more in one column of the PC at home. ): It's just going to cover my entire screen.
And I've lost my Torchwood wallpapers. And the TARDIS startup/shutdown sound effects.
This laptop isn't mine. ): It's a pretender to the throne.
*sigh*
Anyway. As some of you noticed (thank you (: ) it was my birthday yesterday. I'm now officially no longer a teenager. Dang.
Had a few cards - apparently more turned up at home, and mum'll probably hang onto them until we meet up for The Hub or picking up my D of E Gold award two days before that.
Star of the show, though, has to be![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shadowbyrd, who (understanding the whole laptop thing, and everything else that conspired to make the couple of weeks in the run up to the birthday not all that fantastic, generally speaking), bought me a cake, to which we then added butterscotch icing. Green butterscotch icing. With an entire bottle of food colouring in it.
I'll edit pictures in in a minute. Got to put all the camera software on the new laptop yet. *headdesk*
The cake of evil.
The cake of evil, with appropriate fire attached.
Me with the cake of evil, and my "Captain Jack Harkness Never Slept Here" plaque t-shirt...
She also bought me fantastic presents. Bizley art! No, really: have a look around. It's gorgeous stuff. In fact, this one is the one I have. Though mine must be a print, it's not the real thing. (: And a wonderfully huge book called simply Weapon, which has pictures and explanations of everything from stone age clubs to sniper rifles. Ooh, the pretty. And speaking of the pretty, she rounded it all off with the new Torchwood poster. Jack's series 2 promo shot. Full poster. Very pretty. Love the coat. (:
And my mum wrapped up a couple of books for me (folk heroes and fairies, all good stuff), and Ladyhawke arrived in time from Amazon.
And I scrounged an inordinate amount of sweets from Freshers' Week stalls. Plus, I have Gold bars, which are truly food of the gods. Not bad, really.
Oop, Open Office almost done. Let's see if it's something I can actually work with.
Sometimes I think I may be a little too picky...
So I've lost every document I was working on, can't find the backup disc (which is very out of date in any case) and... oh yes. I had stuff backed up on another disc, which corrupted randomly a while ago. I had EVERYTHING backed up on my original USB drive, which... corrupted randomly a while ago. And I didn't get round to putting the whole lot on the new USB, because I wasn't sure about viruses or whatever.
So. I have... my Torchwood fic, because I carried nearly all of that around on the USB anyway.
And that's about it. Anything I was sent over MSN is gone. If I've deleted the emails where anything else was sent... it's gone.
Anything I didn't handwrite and then type up, but rather typed straight, is gone. And if I did handwrite it, it's in among the hundreds of thousands of words worth of paper that I need to retype anyway.
All my icons are gone. All my photos are gone, unless I put them on photobucket first or emailed them to anyone.
All my music is gone. I have a stack of CDs I'm putting on the new laptop at the moment, but I no longer have any random files. Or anything from borrowed CDs.
I'm going to be spending a lot of money on CDs, aren't I?
Downloading Open Office at the moment, because Word 2007 is evil, Vista is VILE, and Works word processor won't let me get rid of that awful, horrible, distracting taskbar at the right hand side.
Please, someone tell me how to make the Vista desktop icons a sensible size. Why do they have to be so massive? 7 down the side? I can get 15 or more in one column of the PC at home. ): It's just going to cover my entire screen.
And I've lost my Torchwood wallpapers. And the TARDIS startup/shutdown sound effects.
This laptop isn't mine. ): It's a pretender to the throne.
*sigh*
Anyway. As some of you noticed (thank you (: ) it was my birthday yesterday. I'm now officially no longer a teenager. Dang.
Had a few cards - apparently more turned up at home, and mum'll probably hang onto them until we meet up for The Hub or picking up my D of E Gold award two days before that.
Star of the show, though, has to be
shadowbyrd, who (understanding the whole laptop thing, and everything else that conspired to make the couple of weeks in the run up to the birthday not all that fantastic, generally speaking), bought me a cake, to which we then added butterscotch icing. Green butterscotch icing. With an entire bottle of food colouring in it.I'll edit pictures in in a minute. Got to put all the camera software on the new laptop yet. *headdesk*
The cake of evil.
The cake of evil, with appropriate fire attached.
Me with the cake of evil, and my "Captain Jack Harkness Never Slept Here" plaque t-shirt...
She also bought me fantastic presents. Bizley art! No, really: have a look around. It's gorgeous stuff. In fact, this one is the one I have. Though mine must be a print, it's not the real thing. (: And a wonderfully huge book called simply Weapon, which has pictures and explanations of everything from stone age clubs to sniper rifles. Ooh, the pretty. And speaking of the pretty, she rounded it all off with the new Torchwood poster. Jack's series 2 promo shot. Full poster. Very pretty. Love the coat. (:
And my mum wrapped up a couple of books for me (folk heroes and fairies, all good stuff), and Ladyhawke arrived in time from Amazon.
And I scrounged an inordinate amount of sweets from Freshers' Week stalls. Plus, I have Gold bars, which are truly food of the gods. Not bad, really.
Oop, Open Office almost done. Let's see if it's something I can actually work with.
Sometimes I think I may be a little too picky...
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Date: 2008-09-18 12:15 pm (UTC)**sad face about the computer** I have tons of stuff on my computer. Let me know what, if anything, you want.
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Date: 2008-09-18 12:18 pm (UTC)I kid you not: any Torchwood icons, wallpapers etc. (Particularly the Ianto or Jack/Ianto. We know where my heart lies...) I have *nothing* at all at the moment, and I use them on my MSN. When I get MSN back, that is, anyway.
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Date: 2008-09-18 12:25 pm (UTC)That is evil -- I understand completely about crashes. Amber's crashed several of my computers, and nearly killed several others.
Ouch on everything lost. *hands you band-aid* Maybe that will help? And those books sound fantastic.
<3
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Date: 2008-09-18 12:46 pm (UTC)*plays with band-aid* It helps. Miaow.
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Date: 2008-09-18 01:51 pm (UTC)I hope you can borrow lots of CDs to get your music back. And I'm glad you've still got your writing!
Oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
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Date: 2008-09-18 03:48 pm (UTC)Still got *most* of the writing. Variations on original themes, and random stuff I was going to do something clever with have all gone.
(: And thanke.
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Date: 2008-09-18 02:37 pm (UTC)::huggles:
Also, I hate Vista with a passion. Sucks ass so badly :(
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Date: 2008-09-18 04:01 pm (UTC)*hugs back* I'm glad to hear your uncle's improving. Much good luck to him.
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Date: 2008-09-18 04:24 pm (UTC)::huggles:: aww thank you.
(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-18 02:37 pm (UTC)If there is anything you want I have thousands of music files, very random and every style. Just shout and if I have anything you want I'll upload for you :)
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Date: 2008-09-18 04:02 pm (UTC)Thanke kindly for the offer, even if you don't have! ^_^
(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-18 03:14 pm (UTC)I don't have any photos but if you want some music or something I'll send if you want.
Happy Belated Birthday.
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Date: 2008-09-18 06:40 pm (UTC)We laugh so we don't start crying
Date: 2008-09-18 07:04 pm (UTC)*sends hugs*
I have vista, too, but it's on my first laptop ever so I probably just don't know how crap it is because I don't have a point of reference.
As for something to cheer you up: I could offer to share my custom made icon with you *points sideways* and a Bond!Ianto Wallpaper (it's perfectly centred so you could fit loads of oversized desktop icons around it)? Would be as good a reason as any to start my own photobucket account or some such where I can share pics...
Aaanyyywaaayyyy, I keep my fingers crossed for your software wrestling and getting stuff back and just to make sure I'll be also keeping my thumbs pressed (which is the same thing, really, just a different cultural background)
*holds and presses and has only theabn notigwrced thuat shtze's totGWRally incSRTHapable oftyping now [so used nose]* ;)
Re: We laugh so we don't start crying
Date: 2008-09-18 07:15 pm (UTC)Moving to Vista was a very, very bad idea on my part. Please, let whatever upgrade they bring next be an *actual* improvement.
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Date: 2008-09-18 09:27 pm (UTC)Have you considered Google Docs? Store them offsite?
Happy Birthday! (Sans spankings.) ;)
Yeah, it's pretty good.
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Date: 2008-09-19 12:48 pm (UTC)Now let me have a look on my hard-drive...I have:
*All three disks of the Queen Platinum Collection
*Torchwood icons, banners and wallpapers from a variety of sources
*The Doctor Who theme and I have the Torchwood one some where
*I am looking at a disk I have of Windows Media Play Version 10. I can try and send you the setup-thing for it if you want it. You might have to completely uninstall the one you have first though.
Let me know if you want anything or if you want me to see if I have anything else.
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Date: 2008-09-22 10:03 am (UTC)All the other stuff, however, sounds glorious... :D Thank you so much.