Girl Genius Comic for Monday, March 14, 2022 (Patreon)
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If you want to see what happens when I hire my kid to make me a commercial, check out the final result on our new/old YouTube channel!
In other news:
LONG BORING COMPUTER NARRATIVE FOLLOWS:
Ok, the main system is scrubbed and restored from backup. All is well.
While that was doing its thing, I started to poke at my old cheese grater Mac, which was sitting around as a "project" awaiting my time and energy to turn it into something one of the kids can use. The kid needs a new one because the comp he's using is one we've had since I think 2010, and it's finally at the point where the OS won't do the things he needs it to do. SO, while my main was taking its sweet time looking through all my files, I reformatted and patched and upgraded and migrated stuff to the old cheese grater.
Then I thought "Heck, I'll clean out Phil's old mac and let the other kid use that one. Oh hey, what? No hard drive? I'm pretty sure it's in there. Let's see if we can find it. Ok, no. Let's see if my data recovery stuff can find it. Nope. Let's see if we can at least melt it with DBAN. Nope. After a lot of work, I can safely say it's dead and I'm going to just open up the case and drive a railroad spike though the hard drive. Maybe I can replace it. Purely for fun, no stakes there, thank goodness.
In the meantime, it turns out that none of the other computers know the password for my Apple account, or the password for the FTP login for the GG site. Just my main. Which was busy on its glorious unending odyssey of self-discovery. Oh, and I got locked out for trying too many times. So I had to wait until I could get back into my main to upload the page. The laptops were good enough for uploading here, but without those passwords I was locked out of the main site. I have no idea why I changed the passwords and then wandered off, but ok. That's on me.
So now the old dead mac is sitting downstairs with copious notes taped to it. Experiment #2 is happy with a stopgap computer that will keep him going until we can get him a new one, and I got the page up.
Yes, we have a sysadmin. It's me. I'm no god, but I get the work done and keep everyone's machines running.
Have a good week!
--Kaja