Originally Posted By knightnfrees X marks the Spock! The Damsel and I went to the Star Trek Tour today.
Originally Posted By knightnfrees Zless fun then we hoped. It was smaller than we expected. Got everything done in under 2 hours. For $20, it would have been worth it. But it was $35 per person. Plus $15 for parking. We did take a bunch of pix, though...I got to Captain the original Enterprise! Damsel was at the helm. She also captained the TNG Enterprise. We are such geeks.
Originally Posted By avromark At this time I currently have 2 laptops defragging while editing stuff on the desktop, geek I am not.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb Best to take care of your hard drives before they give you problems.
Originally Posted By avromark Dude I only had one hard drive go the way of the Dell Dude (Get all fried) and it was not in a Dell.
Originally Posted By markymouse Every once in a while I can hear the gears grinding and belts slipping in my hard drive. It makes me worry how long my computer will survive because, though I'm no techie, I'm pretty sure my computer doesn't even have gears or belts.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb Got a little info for markymouse, a PC has two parts that "move" the power supply and the hard drive.
Originally Posted By avromark How about the cooling fans, the heatsink fan, the FDD, the Optical drives...
Originally Posted By TXDISNEYNERD I don't know much about computers, but it definitely sounds like it is time to get a new one.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb Kan I page alexbook to the meet section? We need to send knight of to Chicago in style.
Originally Posted By knightnfrees Now Alex, it'll be good to see ya if you can make it. It's been too long.
Originally Posted By markymouse OK. A short return to the computer subject. I once had smoke come out of my computer. I called my electrical engineer DP, more than a little concerned. He actually thought the smoke was not such a big deal because the only thing capable of producing smoke was the fan, a cheap and easily replacable part. He was right. But dang if it didn't look impressive.
Originally Posted By markymouse Probably my favorite hardware crisis was when I turned to my boss and told her "I think there's a bug in your computer." She began to say something appropriate, when I said "No, I mean a bug." There was a tiny little mite like thing that had somehow gotten beneath the screen. Cool. Weird but cool. That is all.
