[osis-core] Laptop News!

[Steve DeRose]

At 08:07 PM -0400 08/21/02, Patrick Durusau wrote:
>Guys,
>
>Looks like the laptop will be back tomorrow morning!
>
>Turns out the select bay drive was loose in its housing. Reason: was 
>not shipped with the bracket required to keep it aligned, so when I 
>would plug it in, the machine would panic on boot. :-( Service tech 
>said whoever sold it to me, did not send all the required parts! I 
>replied, yeah, but I bought it all from you! He replied, yeah, 
>whoever sold it to you did not send all the right parts!
>
>Well, at they were honest about the problem so I did not give them a 
>hard time about it. Wish I could get the six days without it back 
>but am glad it will finally be working properly.  (I hope.)
>
>Should be fully functional (to the extent that means anything) on 
>the Windoze side tomorrow.
>
>Signing off for a few hours of sleep.

Gotta buy a big external disk and mirror everything onto it 
periodically. Then when your machine dies you just plug the disk into 
another and keep going. Well, not quite "just", but at least fairly 
close....

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Steve DeRose -- http://www.stg.brown.edu/~sjd
Chair, Bible Technologies Group -- http://www.bibletechnologies.net
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