While the knocking and thumping noises resume in the remodelling at our house, and before I leave for my daily walk, let me share with you a few thoughts about computers.
Having first made the computer's acquaintance nearly twenty years ago—my original computer was a Macintosh SE with 2Mb of RAM, a 20 MB hard drive, and a tiny screen about the size of a jewel-box for a CD—and having spent a fair portion of each day with keyboard and mouse, I am nowadays completely lost without it.
It has become as necessary to my lifestyle as food and companionship.
The best thing about my computer is the link it gives me via the Internet to other people. It sounds utterly ridiculous, but often the only way for me not to forget something is for my wife to send me an email from her computer in the bedroom upstairs to mine in the den downstairs.
During power outages the appliance I miss the most is the computer. Yes, it's another machine, just like a toaster or a stove or a telephone, only more complex, but it has become such a part of my existence that its absence from it would be unthinkable.
Recently I joined a Internet forum which shares ideas and tips about the many things that can go wrong, or right, with computers. I had a problem with my computer that I had been unable to clear up for a long time, one that resulted from my trying to partition my hard drive so that I would have exclusive space for video editing. It was my first attempt at partitioning, and it screwed up my hard drive so that I ended up with a number of gigabytes that were inaccessible, completely beyond my reach, or so I thought.
I submitted my question to the forum — how to reclaim the unallocated chunk of hard drive space and merge it to my main volume. In a very short time came the answer—brief, succinct, and perfectly understandable. In a jiffy, the drive was fixed. Profuse thanks to all concerned. No need to go out and buy an external hard drive.
The forum I signed on to is bleepingcomputer.com. Very helpful and knowledgeable people there. Give it a try if you have computer problems.
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