The Hinternet

I'm so behind here now, I think I must be blogging on the Hinternet instead of the Internet. But I have my computer back (again!) and I'm going to start digging out. Unfortunately, the blog is only one of many things that have suffered in the meantime.

The computer is not really back to normal. This is going to be a test post to see what happens to the last several blog posts I've put up. I'm good through 3/31 with a backup here, but there's the chance that this post will erase the posts between then and now. And if it doesn't erase them now, it might do it later--such is the way this software works. I could just recreate those posts by copying them off the Internet, but that would disconnect them from their comments, which would be yet one more thing to deal with.

What happened, by the way, was that my Mac PowerBook's hard drive was whining as if a bearing was going out. I took it in for a new hard drive, covered by AppleCare so it didn't cost a lot. They got all the data recovered but somehow they got the file permissions mixed up all over the place. For non-Mac users, permissions are part of the reason Apple doesn't have any live circulating viruses. They're a great thing, except when something like this happens.

So I took it back for that to get fixed, and they did a good job again but they forgot one small detail: telling me what login password they put on the PowerBook! I tried to get it from they before they closed on Friday, but we didn't connect.

So I got out my trusty OS install disk to reset the password, which is SOP on a Mac, and it looked like all was going to be fine--but when I rebooted, all the users had disappeared. That means no login, period.

I got on the phone yesterday with the computer shop owner, and he very graciously made a special trip over to do a rescue repair. That got me up and running again, but I lost some data written since the last backup. So here I am, trying to catch up on the blog and all kinds of personal organization, while also trying to get the computer settings back to normal.

Posted: Sun - April 9, 2006 at 07:22 PM |

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The Hinternet

Thinking Christian by Tom Gilson