19 July (Part 1) - More excuses
Just when there are several things that need to be
reported, the Full Council meeting, the Transport User’s Committee meeting, the
extended Belvedere and Abbey Wood CPZs, more silly parking and alleged
100 m.p.h. car crashes, Bonkers decides to go off air.
But not voluntarily.
Just a minute or two after posting Thursday’s blog my PC switched off as if it
had suffered a power outage. It is eight years old and in March I built a
replacement. It is fully working but various things got in the way of
commissioning it with programs and data etc. Not good planning!
The old PC continued to misbehave, it would run for five seconds and sometimes
two minutes and then simply switch off. I suspected a power supply failure and
couldn’t find my spare anywhere. Maybe I gave it away; so I ordered a new one.
Same make and Model number for simplicity. But it is not at all simple. It is smaller so the
cables won’t reach without undoing a load of things and it only has two SATA
connectors. The old one has six and I use three. Another example of creeping inflation by stealth.
Currently the old PC is running in lash up mode (hence this blog) while a more expensive power
supply wings its way to me. What would we do without Amazon?
In the meantime 25 years of data is being transferred to the new PC.
Easy enough with traditional drives; just physically move them from one machine to
another, but the M2s are a damned nuisance requiring motherboard dismantling.
Depending on when Amazon delivers, it will probably be Monday before BiB gets
back to something like normality.
Note: I don’t usually buy computer components from Amazon
but my normal supplier demanded a premium for Sunday delivery and were £20 more expensive anyway.