While many may have concluded that with campaign, kids, work, Portland Dems, et al., I've just been too busy to post much, the truth of it is that I've been limping along for months now with a 1998 Vaio which has been slowly dying. Between it freezing up 4-5 times a day and/or running at a snail's pace, I spent more time cursing it than I do Faux News. So with our ISP finally taking off (more on that in days to come, including our agreement with dotCoop to begin a bloggers cooperative, blog.coop), I could feel comfy enough to put down the cash for some new hardware.
Voila - here I am typing my first post from my brand-spanking-new HP 7020 laptop, with its amazing 17" screen. Didn't know Wampum was so poorly colorized, as I've been working off a very dark medium, having been "adjusted" way too many times by little inquisitive fingers. Guess I'll have to darken it up, and center a few things as well.
I still can't get my wireless to work, and I have no clue as to how to get my old files over to this computer, but at least I can compose without losing 7/8ths of my posts (I'm serious, that's how bad it got - actually "disabled" one keyboard after losing a particularly long piece to a "freeze event".) My mailboxes were constantly getting corrupted, and files lost. So glad to have that all in the past.
While I have events in the near future (tomorrow is selling Girl Scout cookies in the afternoon, and staffing the Maine Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance gala in the evening, and work on Sunday,) I should be much more prolific in the not-to-distant future. Yay.
Posted by MB Williams at March 19, 2004 10:18 PM | TrackBackThere are a couple of easy ways to transfer files/data to your new laptop. If both computers have network cards you can buy an inexpensive crossover cable to connect them to each other. You create a small two computer network and then transfer your files.
I did it a little differently when I got a new laptop. My laptop has a wireless network card. I bought a wireless router, set up a network and transferred all my data.
Either of those ways is easier than putting files on CDs and transferring files but this third way will work too.