Once again, my tech setup has been compromised: this time by the sudden and traumatic failure of the hard drive in my wonderful Sony UX380N. I am currently greeted by an “Operating system not found” message every time I try to boot up. I am rather annoyed by this because as I was purchasing it, I chose to forgo the more expensive solid-state HD version despite vague misgivings about spinning hard drives and long hours bumping up and down on the back of a bike. Darn you, hindsight.
In any case, this leaves me a tad up a creek as far as updating things online goes. I must currently rely on public libraries to fulfill my various and complex computer needs. This means carefully scheduling lunch hours in towns that have public libraries, and hoping fervently that at least some of them have failed to lock down their machines so that I can install the software necessary to upload the data from my GPS/bicycle computer.
The worst-case scenario will occur if and when my Edge runs out of memory before I find such an unsecured computer. I remain hopeful that Garmin has provided me with a good large amount of memory, so that I will be able to travel many hundreds of miles without this happening, but I have no idea whether or not this will come to pass.
Sigh.
Posted by: sam