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Thursday, 11 July 2002
Upgrading

I'll admit, I'm not terribly punctual about running backups. It's an unpleasant task, and the larger my hard drives get, the less enthusiastic I become about it.

But I decided it was really time to cover my ass and get that data onto a more permanent medium, so I bit the bullet and tried to make a backup. It wouldn't even make coasters; Windows kept complaining that there wasn't a blank disc in the drive, even after I put in a cleaning disc.

I've had problems with CD recording ever since I switched to Windows. The CDRW drive will read fine, but it won't write. So finally, in desperation, I went and bought one in case the drive was faulty (turns out that it was). However, at my usual computer store, I found a CDRW/DVD-ROM combo for only $20 more than a plain CDRW (the tradeoff was that the read/write speed is slightly lower; I can live with that).

Karen's reaction: "Oh, good. Now you'll never leave the computer room."

Which is completely untrue. The soda machine is all the way on the other end of the house.

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