I have manged to “brick” my lovable luggable laptop. It’s limping along no thanks to a corrupted McAfee execuatble “protecting” me from the inet. Arggghhh! But, with every “challenge”, there come opportunity. In my anal dedication to backups, (having paid tuituion at that particular school TWICE in my long long career), I am pleased to find that everything is preserved. Not as elegently as I would like, but I do “have” everything. My prolific “kid on the soceer field” whirling dervish do it all outpouring has been staunched by the lack of my favoirte tool performing as it should. But, I am still bloging, working, paying bills, nagging, and browsing pretty much as usual. Recovery is awaiting Senor Dell sending me the recovery disks that they no longer ship with each product because as their tech says “no one ever needs them any more”. Wrong, “No one” is me, now! So as soon as the pony express delivers them, I’ll do resusitation on this big heavy pig and be back in business. The luggable being down has given me a platform to play with the latest release of UBUNTO, which I call I BUNT TWO, which is sweet. Right out of the sleeve their live cd brings up a workign platform. Sweet. The last version had trouble with a hardwire connect to the work lan requiring configuration, and wireless for home never worked. This version BOTH situatuins work on boot up. Sweet. No touch useablility.
Why do you care?
If you’re employed and your workstation fails, what personally will you lose in both personal content (very bad) and business content (worse). In one of my tuition experience, I “lost” 6 months of intellectual productivity. I was depending upon my employer’s recovery scheme as I was told to do. Bad idea. The guy who was responsible said “oops” and kept on chugging. I was left scrambling and took a hit in my bonus for certain things that I knew I had done but couldn’t demonstrate and / or recreate. The second lesson, different employer, same scenario, I lost a week’s work. At that time, I backed up every Friday before I left for the week end. No I backup at the end of every day!
If you are unemployed and your workstation fails, what will you lose? Besides the ability to do work, what data will you lose? What is your plan for doing email or cover letters or a targeted resume, when your computer is doing its best imiatation of a brick?
Remember “lessons are repeated until the student learns”!
Reinke Faces Life 