Pictures

[stoutfellow]

I may have mentioned that I have a large collection of backgrounds, and my monitors cycle through them at six-hour intervals. I have a lot of Astronomy Picture of the Day screens, a bunch of screens from one or another webcomic, a few TV-oriented screens (mostly from Buffy or Angel), and most recently a variety of famous paintings.

A few days ago my computer had another episode of catatonia. When I rebooted, Windows Media Player had once again forgotten all of my music - it had somehow recovered a while ago, but it's gone again - and my monitors were stuck on two backgrounds, randomly choosing one or the other every six hours. (One was a picture of the recent solar eclipse, in the background of a pagoda; the other was a closeup of Jupiter.)

I finally did... something, I don't know what, that kicked the display out of that loop, and I've got "The Blue Guitar" and an Angel screen up now. We'll see if this is back to normal, or just another tight loop.

:is hopeful:

Comments

[graydon]

Computer catatonia immediately brings to mind "blessed are the pessimists, for they have made backups".

This sounds like progressive hard drive failure, which brings the idea of backups to mind rather more forcefully.

[stoutfellow]

Ah. The computer's not that old - a year or so - but that's still a disturbing possibility. I do have a backup device, but don't have it connected to this computer. I should do that.

[graydon]

Dying after a year would make you especially unlucky, but it does happen.

May you get at least one uncorrupted backup, and no corrupted ones!