{"id":49979,"date":"2015-04-03T22:49:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T04:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/03\/state-of-the-computer.html"},"modified":"2015-05-07T15:43:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T21:43:34","slug":"state-of-the-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/03\/state-of-the-computer.html","title":{"rendered":"State of the Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, the good news is that the replacement hard drive, the +<\/span>Backblaze<\/a><\/span> backup drive, and the ASUS recovery discs all finally arrived and<\/i> I had time last evening to implement the three. <\/p>\n

And, hey presto, I now have a functioning home machine again.<\/p>\n

I had today off, so it was largely dedicated to rebuilding the content of the system — reloading the key applications, restoring the data from the Backblaze drive, and getting things back to "normal". Which, at this point, they largely are, with a few noteworthy exceptions:<\/p>\n

1. I finally got my Calibre installation working again, so that I can manage my ebooks, but it took a bit of poking and prodding as to the appropriate data libraries. I still have to re-download some key plugins.<\/p>\n

2. My iTunes is not behaving well. I installed the latest version (a version-and-change since where I was), and I can get it to fire up, but it immediately starts chiding me about having problems with the library file. It operates, but I have to poke around at things each time I exit to get it to work again. <\/p>\n

3. It turns out the problem I'm having with my WordPress log was not focused on my office laptop, but is a general problem, so I need to do some work to fix that.<\/i><\/p>\n

4. I haven't yet tried to tackle my photo management setup with Picasa (web-based). I have been a real slug about managing my photos for a while, and I'm concerned about how both software changes and loss of the previous library might be teed up to really mess with things.<\/p>\n

But, by and large the combo of Backblaze and Google have gotten me to 90% of where I was. Which is a darned sight better than I have been for the past couple of weeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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