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So yesterday the latest incarnation of Kiki was delivered. Essentially my laptops have the same name now. The Mac laptop is Aylee; the little backup PC laptop is Torg & my main PC laptop is Kiki. Both the old and the new Kiki are Dell Latitude PCI laptops [both 750 mhz, 256 ram, the old with a 10 gig HD, the new has a 20 gig HD].

Since the old Kiki is 2 years older than when I got her and showing signs of needing the OS reinstalled [or at least, having the programs I've added removed] - and with the power supply scare - I looks for a replacement. Found another on Ubid for $400 [after shipping] and it was delivered yesterday.

Spent the whole afternoon/evening transfering files and trying to find out where files were hidden in Win 2000 [which is different than Win 98]. Not sure I like the way it's set up, but am living with it.

Spent the afternoon/evening today doing more of the same and can get online now. Managed to transfer my mail files [-except- for what was in the 'inbox' section of the mail, whatever was in a folder transfered just fine]. Managed to transfer sound files, backgrounds, screen savers & my saved 'Torment' game files [and Baldur's Gate game files]

So I've spent a lot of time making stuff as close to they were as possible. Hope the latest incarnation of Kiki is nice and stable.

And I'll probably seek to sell the old Latitude on Half.com for $200. Bet it sells pretty fast, too, but I -so- don't want yet -another- laptop just sitting around. ^_^

You are naming...

Date: 2005-04-23 01:09 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] seawasp
... a computer after an ADD-afflicted, sugar-hyperactive ferret and you hope it's STABLE?

You want stable, I think it should be named Zoe, if you insist on a Sluggy nickname. Bun-Bun is stable, but hostile.

(mine are named after things in my own writing, of course; the HD on this one is "Atlantaea", the one on my downstairs Mac is "Nowemosdet")

Re: You are naming...

Date: 2005-04-25 10:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melchar.livejournal.com
But at least I'm -aware- that my computers are flaky & not completely reliable, so their efforts to misbehave will not come as a surprise. (& I -do- have Zoe, Riff & BunBun as removable storage drives that I keep backup files on.)

Date: 2005-04-24 01:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] efng.livejournal.com
as i am sure you have many people who have offereed,if you need any help pulling any more information off the old machine,just holler......

Date: 2005-04-25 10:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melchar.livejournal.com
Thanks Speller! I'm pretty sure I have all the files moved over. My greatest source of irritation is that now my address book [which I could only move as an earlier .ldif copy, since the .mab copy didn't work] - was installed alphabetically backwards. Kinda weird.

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