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Back that thang up

Okay, perusing my backups I discovered that all is not lost, except for almost exactly a month from 7-8 to 8-8 when the PC was running backwards through the files during the copy and crapped out. Still, all my apps are stuck in limbo, the emails and address books never got backed up at all, and the studio is toast. Missing in the fold are Photoshop, Adobe Audition, Cool Edit Pro 2.0, Cakewalk, Wavelab, a number of little apps that made life and editing much easier, my bookmarks and a few other critical items. I have the original disks from all my major apps, but it's the myriad customisations that have to be tweaked back into shape. It's amazing how 'comfortable' one gets in a PC after a few years. Still, there is something to be said for a PC that is fresh and new and devoid of the accumulated cruft and detritus that accompanies constant, daily use.

This will end up accelerating the work on the sidelined 'replacement' PC that should have been in place months ago. I have determined that the mobo is defective. Since it's not being made anymore, and the manufacturer (Abit) fallen on hard times, I will be replacing it with a socket AM2 equivalent ASUS mobo, along with a fresh Athlon X2, and some DDR2 memory. The existing X2 will find a home in the HTPC, and the 3800 and RAM will join up with a simple mobo and video to go into the PC that Jeff and I share for everyday internet stuff and whatnot. Right now that PC is taking up duties while the Great PC Shuffle runs it's course here.

Part of that Shuffle will include a nice, up-to-date server to replace the 7-year old monster that has quietly done it's duties with practically no fanfare or failures, powered up 24/7/365. Those 5 Seagate Cheetah SCSI drives owe me nothing, with the only hardware failures over the years being several cooling fans (those Cheetahs run stupid hot) , a Zip drive and a Yamaha SCSI CD burner. Not bad for all those years.

I am looking forward to my gigabit networked, multi-terabyte, seamlessly interconnected home/studio of the future. :)