A Day of Stuff.

[swestrup]

So today I spent mucho time installing and configuring software. I still have a ways to go, but things are beginning to look like my old system. I'm still doing lots of infinite recursion as I work though. For instance, I went to download a utility, and found out it was available as a torrent. So, I first went to install uTorrent. Well, it wanted to know what the port number was in my firewall that it should use. I didn't remember. So, I had to ssh to my firewall. Only, I first had to find and install PuTTY so that I could use SSH.

That sort of thing has happened time and time again today. I currently have a stack of *counts* 20 CDs sitting beside my computer that contain software or data that I want to restore. Now, in some cases its just one tiny driver off a whole CD, but other times (like with Wordperfect) its all of the contents of multiple CDs.

Right now, as I type this, the last of the various PATA hard drives I've been using have been copied to my new SATA drive, and I'm now in the process of copying them all at once onto my backup SATA. After that I will feel secure in deleting and rearranging files as I go, knowing that I have copies both on the original drives and on my new backup.

So, my day has not gone too badly at all so far, even if it started with a migraine. How has yours gone?

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A day of winning and losing

[pythonian.livejournal.com]

I've had days like that. You end up in this spiral of seemingly extra tasks and feel as if nothing got done, even though it is quite clear that all the recursive stuff actually needed to get done at some time.

As far as how my day went, well, you (and anyone else who reads my journal) know the answer to that.