Subj : Re: weather was: food option To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Tue Dec 24 2019 17:00:08 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 17-Dec-2019 08:39 <=- NB>> Had a bigger gap than expected.... got a little busy, and then had NB>> a scare with the computer, where it wouldn't boot up properly (I'd NB>> turned off the computer, realized I'd wanted to do something more on NB>> it, so turned it back on, only to have it get stuck partway into the NB>> bootup)... leading me to fear that the hard drive had died on me... NB>> and all those lost files on it.... BM> Thought perhaps you had had a wild weekend but not that kind of BM> wild! Good thing The Wizard was there to help! Yup... wrong kind of wild, for sure... ;0 BM> I'm fairly certain Richard has checked the usual things out: BM> S.M.A.R.T. report on the hard drive, power supply -- in your case the BM> wall wart. Anything else I can think of requires opening the case. BM> Plus Richard has probably checked. This was the main desktop that glitched... and his guess is that the power supply thought it was too warm to turn the computer back on right away... It sat overnight... actually, I didn't even want to test it in the morning before he was around to supervise, so didn't even try it again until Friday evening... and everything has worked fine since... BM> Hopefully just a one-time hiccough, but did get you to create a BM> backup! I'll admit to not having a backup of my laptop also, but mine BM> is for auxiliary use and any files are transferred to the main system BM> when I get home. We did the backup of the desktop TO the laptop... there's FAR more room on my new-to-me Dell laptop than on the desktop... at least twice as much, so there was plenty of room to copy over everything here to there... We did do an archive into .zip files to save a little space, one file per drive on the desktop (the desktop drive is partitioned into four drives for DOS's sake)... There's actually some overlap between what I normally have on the laptop and what is on the desktop, but most of my stuff has been on the desktop.... NB>> It was AIS a massive job... took from Friday evening to early Sunday NB>> morning continuous.... probably about 36 hours or so... and then NB>> another maybe 4 hours Sunday evening for another major directory NB>> we'd not put into the original backup batch file... It's actually NB>> the first full backup I've ever done of my (part of the) computer... BM> Sort of reminds me of the Olden Days when it took hours to transfer BM> data from a 400 KB floppy! (They were standard 5¬" floppies in RX50 BM> format.) We were copying through a wired network connection, and there was probably 3/4 of a gig or so of stuff to transfer, maybe a little more... NB>> And the computer's not given a stitch of trouble since, NB>> thankfully... :) BM> It just wwanted to give you a scare! Richard told it Halloween was BM> two months ago! No, I told it that.... NB>> Anyway, having survived the scare, and taken care of some bits of NB>> maintenance associated with the files, now I think I'm back in NB>> business for getting back to messages.... ;) BM> Just be certain to do at least a weekly backup! I don't know if it has to be the whole thing like that each time... I need to ask the Wizard if there's some way to just add to the archive, or how it works exactly.... and things have been busy since, not just at the computer.... ;) NB>>> with rain.... I'd almost rather the snow... I don't want the ice NB>>> the rain could produce.... BM>> No, ice is only fun for skating, and that's the purposeful skating BM>> with ice skates, not the accidental skating with anything else. NB>> Exactly. :) Fortunately, although we did have some rain, it didn't NB>> turn snow into ice... and snow since then has been nicely sparse.. ;) BM> We had a about 1«" of snow Monday morning. Rest of the week and BM> through Christmas is predicted to be warmer -- even getting into the BM> low 50's. Meteorologist on the news this morning said there was a 5% BM> chance of a white Christmas and he used that number only because he's BM> trying to be optimistic. Yeah... here it is Christmas Eve, and yesterday was in the mid-50s and sunny... and the remaining snow is very sparse.... mostly from shoveling or plowing piles or in protected spots... Today's only in the 30s, but no snow predicted today or tonight, and tomorrow will be back in the 50s... Guess there's really no chance for a white Christmas this year... BM>>> As far as metal shingles I'm thinking part of it is the cost. NB>>> He's not even considered metal shingles, what we have on the house NB>>> are regular asphalt shingles, and no plans for anything different... BM>> We'll probably stick with the asphalt shingles also; the roof is going BM>> to be redone within another few years. I don't have a real compelling BM>> reason to switch to metal; more of a reason not to with the antennae BM>> in the Storage Area. NB>> Makes sense to me... :) Our house roof was done not that long ago, NB>> maybe a couple of years now.... the garage is completely detached NB>> from the house, at the back of the back yard... BM> If "a couple of years ago" (sometimes the real time is longer!) no BM> reason to reshingle for another decade or two. No, this roof should last for at least that decade or two now... BM> The time to reshingle this house is coming up. And I don't know what BM> styles, etc., are available with metal roofing: may not look at all BM> right with your house nor mine. I wouldn't think it would look right with ours for sure... What we got this time are the ones I think are called sculptural.. they look sort of like a basket weave.... supposed to last longer, I think.... NB>>> The metal roof for the garage made sense, and is something that he NB>>> can do himself, bit by bit.... no warranty other than the materials NB>>> themselves, I'd guess.... :) BM>> There are two or three roof surfaces an amateur roofer might want to BM>> do at this house because not too much of an angle, the rest are steep BM>> and/or too far from the ground. NB>> That last describes all of our house roof except for the front and NB>> side porches.... ;) BM> :) There are some 'gentle slopes' and there are some semi-steep BM> sections. The roofers don't seem to mind; I wouldn't want to do it! It's why one hires the roofers to do the job, after all... ttyl neb .... Dijon vu: the feeling you've tasted that mustard before. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .