{"id":287,"date":"2003-02-27T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-27T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=287"},"modified":"2003-02-27T00:25:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-27T00:25:00","slug":"a-sense-of-impending-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-02\/287-a-sense-of-impending-doom","title":{"rendered":"A sense of Impending Doom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I booted up <i>Gwendoline<\/i> this evening, and it was with a great gnashing of teeth&#151; or at least what sounded like that&#151; coming from the area where the hard drive is! <b>oh, oh!<\/b> It sounds like I&#8217;m about to experience the Total Joy of Hard Disk Crash.<\/p>\n<p><b>Fortunately<\/b>, mainly because I am a <i>Good Computer Geek<\/i>, I have backed up to CD-R most of the contents of the drives associated with that physical hard disk. Just to be on the safe side, though, I have also copied the complete contents from that machine to <i>Pandora<\/i>. Silly me&#8230; I sent everything over to the &#8220;My Documents&#8221; folder&#8230; and learned the hard way that you <b>cannot put over 15 Gb worth of data on what remains of a 5 Gb partition!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m running a complete <b>Level Three Diagnostic<\/b> on <i>Gwendoline<\/i>, just to A) identify if there are any real problems, and B) do some system maintenance which will help extend the life expectancy and put off the <b>Impending Doom<\/b> with its great gnashing of teeth and the Total Joy of Hard Disk Crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I booted up Gwendoline this evening, and it was with a great gnashing of teeth&#151; or at least what sounded like that&#151; coming from the area where the hard drive is! oh, oh! It sounds like I&#8217;m about to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-02\/287-a-sense-of-impending-doom\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}