Charlie types a prayer, computer gets fixed
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 9:00AM ;)
I am reluctant to state it, just in case the thing should suddenly fly apart on me, but this computer seems to be fixed. I got my check late yesterday after I had gone to Machaus to shop out a new one to replace it with. Bruce, the Machaus tech wizard, felt very badly that I was about to invest about four thousand dollars into a new Mac Pro when Apple is likely to release the next generation within a couple of weeks - and it should be greatly improved over what I would have bought today and probably for about the same price.
So he suggested one more thing that I might try to see if it might improve my old computer just enough to allow me to limp through until the new release comes out. So I tried it - I installed Snow Leopard on a new harddrive, made it the startup drive and... BLAM! It is suddenly like I have a whole new computer!
Wow! Lightroom and Photoshop NEVER worked so fast for me as they do now.
In fact, I am coming to believe that my original harddrive might have been defective from the beginning, because I don't ever remember it being this fast. Maybe it was defective and just kept steadily declining, because this is quite incredible, how fast it is now.
So I am back in business now. I have lost most of the last two weeks, and wasted a whole lot more time slogging through long before that, even, but now I can zip.
I chose this photo to run with this story for a very special reason. I have spent the past few weeks working up a Kivgiq Uiñiq - and it has been a dreadful, dreadful, frustrating, aggravating slog - because of all the malfunctions that this computer went through. I cannot even describe the aggravation that it has been - to try to scroll through thousands of frames only to have stop and watch that colorwheel spin and and spin.
To try to open a photo for processing, only to have it take so long that I could go out, fix myself a snack, come back and the find the picture not opened yet.
That is what I have been facing.
This is Charlie Brower and wife Jan fun dancing at Kivgiq, with North Slope Borough Mayor Edward Itta dancing right behind them.
Just about every day, Charlie leaves a "like" and a comment on my Facebook link to this blog.
Yesterday, his comment was this:
"Praying for computer to fix itself!"
The computer got a little help from Bruce and me, all right, but, after weeks of struggle, it was on the very day that Charlie typed in that prayer that the answer came. So there you go.
Furthermore, in a very real way, the computer did fix itself. I put in the new $200 harddrive and the Snow Leopard CD and gave it the command, but after that, the computer took that information and did all the work to fix itself.
So there you go, again.
Charlie Brower - thanks for that prayer!
Reader Comments (7)
Well, isn't that something! God works in mysterious ways, Bill - a lucky thought by Machaus the wizard and a prayer from Charlie. Who's to say. Great news, you can work faster, get that revenue coming in, and a selfish thought, the less of a summer break you'll take from the journal!!!
Bill, I'm so glad to hear about your computer! Not that anything can make up for all the aggro you've gone through of late but there's nothing like the thrill of having a new(ish) computer. Now you can sail on smoothly, I hope.
Big victory in the battle!
Thank you Charlie and Bruce!
WOOT! WOOT! Hurrah! for Bruce at the MacHaus! He's our hero!
It is a wise man who knows when to pray.
It is a good thing to know a good computer geek.
Sometimes the two go together. Yay!
I'll add a prayer that all your work goes smoothly to make up for the time you've lost. Good news!