Bob La Quey wrote:
It is that kind of story.
First the bad news. I spilled a glass of wine on my
laptop ... the damn thing's lights went out :(
Oh clumsy me!
The good news. While not completely backed up
nonetheless I had sent quite a few key files as attachments
to email messages for people I am working with. All of
this using Goggle's GMail. So ... The attachments, hence
the documents are stored on GMail's servers.
Now I may (or may not) be able to recover the laptop.
But most of the critical stuff is on GMail.
I see this as a story that becomes apocryphal. Storing on
GMail certainly has it's problems (why trust Google?). But
given the fact that I am often stretched to thin and do not
do proper backups Google may be the lesser of evils.
I would BTW like advice on the best way to recover my
laptop. I did immediate since it with water and did my best
to blow away any excess. I shall let it dry overnight then
see what happens. Suggestions please.
Stumbling onward,
BobLQ
I must admit up front that I have no idea how to revive the laptop; I've
never created the problem for myself.
On the other hand, I have a 500 GB WD hard drive attached to my Mac Mini
for one-click backups. It plugs into an USB port and, once the simple
setup is done, does incremental backups on demand, keeping my vital data
on something other than the machine itself. I've been trying to get my
Parallels Desktop to work so I can run Ubuntu on the Mini, but so far
the proper mojo has eluded me. Meanwhile, I'm becoming fond of OS X.
James
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