Ah, technology…

You know… I hate being a techie with no money… Those two don’t go together too well…

Wednesday morning (last week, right before we were to fly out of town) we woke up to a silent office… This is odd since the computer fans are usually going to town creating a constant white-noise eminating from that room.

I haven’t had the time to dig in & troubleshoot the problem, but I have a feeling it’s the motherboard. I already had to plug the CPU fan into the case fan slot because the CPU fan circuit was blown. Which is why the fans were so loud, because I had to turn them up to actually keep things cool enough to keep it running.

It’s OK, right? almost all of our files are kept safe on an external drive plugged into the USB port. I’ll just pull out our old Mac laptop & plug in the hard drive… Wrong…

For whatever reason, our popr little Mac doesn’t have the ability to read NTFS formatted partitions (Drives formated for Windows)… Ug… There’s plenty of evidence on the web saying it should be able to read the info, but not save anything to the drive, but apparently I need to look into some updates… Time to learn a little more Mac tech… (Hopefully there’s some free updates without having to buy the latest version of the OS, I’m not sure this little 500MHz laptop could handle much more…)

Ooh! I know! Maybe I can look into installing Linux on this little laptop… That would actually make it much more usable! Maybe when I have the time…

Eh, we’ll see.

In the mean time, I’ve gotta figure out what’s wrong with our office computer & see if I can get it up & running again.

Gotta love tech. Just wish things didn’t break…