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So I replaced my old HP Pavilion DM4, with a newer version of the DM4. Same microprocessor, but apparently a better fingerprint reader, 8 gigs of RAM (instead of 6) and a hard drive that's three quarters of a terabyte (instead of half).
I have reinstalled Microsoft Office 2007, and Dragon 11.5 and so far both are working. I am slowly, but surely restoring my bookmarks in Firefox, restoring addresses in Outlook, and much looking forward to getting my photographs and documents back. No sooner do I destroy my hard drive, but five different individuals ask me for recipes, all of which are on the hard drive that's broken.
There was no loss of electronic medical records, as that is all on the mainframe computer here in the office, w3hich does do automatic back-ups. However, all the forms I generated over the last few years, plus my letterhead, are all on the old machine.
The suggestion of a Carbonite account seems reasonable, although I am not particularly enamored in giving anyone who used to advertise on Limbaugh my business. Granted, they're one of the huge number of advertisers who left, after Limbaugh's most recent bout of "foot-in-mouth-disease", but still if they were once willing to support Limbaugh with their advertising dollars, do they really need my business?
This isn't cutting off my nose to spite my face. I simply am majorly disinclined
to patronize businesses that have actively worked against my better interest. Since their funding of right wing, wingnut, anti-gay, anti-minority, tea party candidates in the last election cycle, I no longer shop in either Best Buy or Target. Similarly, I try fairly diligently not to buy products made by Koch industries. This last one is not so simple, as the Koch brothers seem to have their thumbs in everything. Anything Georgia-Pacific makes for example, is a Koch brothers product.
Oh and yes, I do have a subscription to The Nation.
I have reinstalled Microsoft Office 2007, and Dragon 11.5 and so far both are working. I am slowly, but surely restoring my bookmarks in Firefox, restoring addresses in Outlook, and much looking forward to getting my photographs and documents back. No sooner do I destroy my hard drive, but five different individuals ask me for recipes, all of which are on the hard drive that's broken.
There was no loss of electronic medical records, as that is all on the mainframe computer here in the office, w3hich does do automatic back-ups. However, all the forms I generated over the last few years, plus my letterhead, are all on the old machine.
The suggestion of a Carbonite account seems reasonable, although I am not particularly enamored in giving anyone who used to advertise on Limbaugh my business. Granted, they're one of the huge number of advertisers who left, after Limbaugh's most recent bout of "foot-in-mouth-disease", but still if they were once willing to support Limbaugh with their advertising dollars, do they really need my business?
This isn't cutting off my nose to spite my face. I simply am majorly disinclined
to patronize businesses that have actively worked against my better interest. Since their funding of right wing, wingnut, anti-gay, anti-minority, tea party candidates in the last election cycle, I no longer shop in either Best Buy or Target. Similarly, I try fairly diligently not to buy products made by Koch industries. This last one is not so simple, as the Koch brothers seem to have their thumbs in everything. Anything Georgia-Pacific makes for example, is a Koch brothers product.
Oh and yes, I do have a subscription to The Nation.
