Walk in the woods with my wife today. Got home to find an email from a client reporting a problem with the latest test version of some software I sent them. I think they've set up a new laptop and haven't done it quite right, but it should have handled the problem better than it did. I guess that will keep me out of trouble over the weekend.
Shifted a load of boards around in the attic. Where I was lifting the floor I ended up with a load of pieces of wood that I laid on an adjacent area of the attic. Now I need to get underneath them, so I got to reposition them. That was interesting. Moving boards that length is tricky, especially when there are only so many places to put them where they won't be in the way. And then, having moved them out of the way, I discovered that the most obvious place to put the ceiling fan in the room below is going to conflict with a bunch of elderly cables. I can see another outing for Mr Wirecutters at this rate. For good measure some genius tucked a junction box under the floor, so I'll have to get rid of that as well. I suspect what I can do is just cut everything out and be done with it - it will kill a couple of sockets but I think I can probably live with it. The only thing I need those sockets for is low power so I can run an extension from a nearby socket if needs be.
Looking forward to a quiet day today. Busy past week with soccer tournament, school track and field, a high school grad dinner, plus of course the usual work.
Plenty of overtime. Plus 4 twelve hr shifts over 4th of July weekend. Will install #7 firestation, including a nifty 250' hose reel for 3/4" maintenence wet-down. New hoses & fittings for 1-1/2" hydrant. All enclosed in pressure treated redwood, insulated housing. Installing small milk-house heaters for sub-zero weather. Dramatic upgrade. Retrement looms just up yonder. Really.
Solid state drive? I've been thinking about getting one of those for my laptop. It's already about seven years old but still way ahead of most current laptops, specification wise. It has a 1TB traditional drive and I've been contemplating fitting a 2TB SSD for a while now. It can support a limited additional drive (I think it's an mSATA) to be the boot volume, but limited to 128GB and that doesn't seem to last very long when you add memory swap files, hibernate files, and the way Windoze seems to need ever-more space just to look at the pretty desktop.
The SSD in mine is only 128Gb. It should be large enough to handle my programs. I may upgrade in the future as prices come down. 256Gb drive is like $150 CDN.
I find myself wishing I had started with Linux years ago. On my near-future reinstall, considering Linux with the option of switching over to Win10 when needed. Windows is a tyranny, imo. For the phone, Android is just as cumbersome. These OSs dominate too much of a user's life, which I've come to resent. Learning curve involved with going to Linux at this harried state of life
When I first looked at an SSD for mine the figures were something like $300 for 1TB, rising to $1700 for a 4TB. I like the idea of 4TB of SSD storage but never really liked the price tag. Now it looks like the 4TB is down to closer to $7-800 and a 2TB runs more like $300. Obviously the "pro" grade ones that offer surprisingly vaguely defined improvements cost a little more. Last time I looked the Crucual 2TB SSD was under $300. Of course, as with just about everything else these days, there are a concerning number of common themes in the 1-star reviews on sites like Amazon that leave me wondering whether I'll do all the work to transfer my data only to lose it all within a week as the drive dies.
In my case, most of the data is stored on a conventional drive. The SSD is for the programs. I might try a bit of a mix to see what the performance difference is.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Sorry, Thanks, OK I feel better now. Just been talking to lawyers for the last hour.
At least that way I would have had a quasi-intellectual discussion. How some people can be so academically trained yet utterly devoid of human reasoning or logic.
At least from the local shop. I'm sure I could find cheaper at Amazon, or Future Shop or Best Buy. The latter two are at least over 400 km away though.