Frogs and Ravens

J.K. Rowling

This site is just fun to navigate. Talk about realizing the potential of the medium!

Note to Self

Remember my recent hard drive frustration? Well, imagine my feelings after buying a new hard drive, by another company, and not being able to get it to work either.

Lots of tooth-gnashing, cursing of the hardware gods, and one cross email.

Then I upgraded from OS9 to 9.1, in a vague (yes, vague) hope that it would help. Well, it did, but not in the way I expected.

Note to myself: When installing anything new, be it hardware or software, TURN OFF THE EXTENSIONS FIRST.

(I can't believe I forgot this.)

Worked like a charm.

The Hair-Pulling Dance of Frustration

Raarrgh! Mmmph! Spit! Splutter! Waving of fists and gnashing of teeth! Yeaargh!

Pant, pant.

Have I mentioned lately how much I hate dealing with computer snafus? The latest annoyance concerns something that was meant to be a solution to a different problem. My computer's been acting up lately, so I figured it would be a good idea to back it up. Since I have about 4Gs to deal with, backup with CD-ROMs is slow. So I bought a hard drive.

My belief (erroneous) was that I could simply plug it in and drag my files to it, they would be copied, and I would be done. HAH!

Instead, I was greeted with a cacophony of error messages, which I followed with (probably ill-advised) reformatting efforts, and now the lovely new 20G drive claims that it has now only 4G to spare. WHA?

I have sent off a query to the support folks, but, me being me, I can't let go of this puzzle until it is fixed. I am sufficiently cognizant of the likelihood of failure should I keep beavering away at the problem, so I am not touching anything more until I hear back from them.

This is doesn't mean that I'm not going to spend the remainder of the night obsessing about it! Grrr...

Image Compression

Does anyone know of a good Mac-based program for compressing images? Freeware is desirable, and it has to be compatible with OS9. I have other software for editing images; this only needs to compress them.

Thanks!