This n' that
Jul. 29th, 2008 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisWork is slow again. Boring. But, I was entertaining myself piddling around on the computer when I got an email that my webcams were wonky.
I so appreciate anyone and everyone who goes to the trouble of letting me know. My Mom never let a webcam be broken for more than a minute and I forget to check so now they can go broken for days. Of course that may well be tree in the forest material now that I think about it...
One of my computers runs two of the webcams using two instances of the same software. This is not ideal but works a lot of the time. I don't know of any software 'built' to run more than one webcam but I wish I did. And, by 'run' I mean send a jpg via ftp every 30 seconds or so. I'm not looking for anything complicated.
But... I digress.
I twiddled with both webcams and pretty soon managed to blue screen the computer. And when it came up, Surprise!! Hard drive failure. Again. Sigh. When my brother insisted on two drives with RAID I thought it was overkill but fortuitously kept my lips zipped. Sure glad I did.
I'm pretty sure both drives are still covered by Western Digital warranty. I sent email to my bro.
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My tooth pain is not really worse. It's a little more constant and a little more localized. I think I called the dentist at a very good time in the pain process. Hopefully. I spent some time last night conjuring on the worse case scenarios and the best case scenarios and trying to get in my mind a likelihood of what will happen. I do better in these kinds of situations if I'm not caught off guard.
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Just heard from my brother and got the WD RMA thing underway for the hard drive. Turns out it was the one that was replaced a few months ago. Oh well. All is good.
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I got a very adorable photo birth announcement from my nephew (my brother's oldest) yesterday. I am not generally taken by baby pictures but this one is cute and the announcement is nice and I appreciate his sending it. So I popped a teddy bear into the mail to her with a note welcoming her into the world. My brother's other son had a baby girl a few months ago. Wonder what the world will be like for these two little girls. And what fun to have a same sex cousin just your age. Kennedy Joanne and Laurana Juliet.
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Lunch time.
I so appreciate anyone and everyone who goes to the trouble of letting me know. My Mom never let a webcam be broken for more than a minute and I forget to check so now they can go broken for days. Of course that may well be tree in the forest material now that I think about it...
One of my computers runs two of the webcams using two instances of the same software. This is not ideal but works a lot of the time. I don't know of any software 'built' to run more than one webcam but I wish I did. And, by 'run' I mean send a jpg via ftp every 30 seconds or so. I'm not looking for anything complicated.
But... I digress.
I twiddled with both webcams and pretty soon managed to blue screen the computer. And when it came up, Surprise!! Hard drive failure. Again. Sigh. When my brother insisted on two drives with RAID I thought it was overkill but fortuitously kept my lips zipped. Sure glad I did.
I'm pretty sure both drives are still covered by Western Digital warranty. I sent email to my bro.
--
My tooth pain is not really worse. It's a little more constant and a little more localized. I think I called the dentist at a very good time in the pain process. Hopefully. I spent some time last night conjuring on the worse case scenarios and the best case scenarios and trying to get in my mind a likelihood of what will happen. I do better in these kinds of situations if I'm not caught off guard.
--
Just heard from my brother and got the WD RMA thing underway for the hard drive. Turns out it was the one that was replaced a few months ago. Oh well. All is good.
--
I got a very adorable photo birth announcement from my nephew (my brother's oldest) yesterday. I am not generally taken by baby pictures but this one is cute and the announcement is nice and I appreciate his sending it. So I popped a teddy bear into the mail to her with a note welcoming her into the world. My brother's other son had a baby girl a few months ago. Wonder what the world will be like for these two little girls. And what fun to have a same sex cousin just your age. Kennedy Joanne and Laurana Juliet.
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Lunch time.
