My laptop died yesterday. I had to rip its still heart from the warm chassis and pop it in an external.
We’re short of deskies at work at the moment, and I couldn’t afford the downtime, so I had to retail a box from a chain store and roll with whatever that came with. Vista Basic as it happens. I’m being big about it, but leaving the plastic on so I can kid myself it could go back at a moment’s notice.
Apps have really improved since the last terminal hardware failure I experienced. I already had my profiles grouped nicely in My Documents for cleaner back-ups so getting everything back was a not-too-unpleasant hour or so out of my Sunday afternoon - although I’d rather have spent it with the kids.
Good filing was a half step towards getting my computing into the cloud. It made me realise there are no barriers to actually completing the transition, beyond a bit of time to think and choose my steps carefully.
It really hasn’t been that long the cloud was readily available at the consumer level.
But now, putting stuff on things and hoping they stay there seems like last century’s folly.
