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Mind Wiping Elphaba
Jun. 24th, 2013 11:01 pmElphaba is a lovely, lovely machine. Is fact she's an extraordinary machine, Windows 8 notwithstanding.
She did, however, like a cranky baby lock me out.
I mean, okay, maybe I shouldn't have changed the default password of her login at 1 am when I was knackered and then not remember it when I woke up the next day.
Maybe.
Yeah, that probably has something to do with it.
So, yeah. I got her Friday afternoon and by Saturday morning I was locked out without anyway of getting back in.
As luck would have it, bff and her husband are software and hardware people when it comes to computers and they managed to save Elphaba.
Granted she returned to factory setting and the little I had downloaded was wiped, but it was all good, because I could get into my computer baby again.
And yet, there was much anxious tweeting and gesticulating to family members about my conundrum, because really? Forgetting my password on the first day of acquiring a new computer? Just... it's so silly.
Still, no one seemed to judge me too harshly. I was the one doing the self flagellation thing.
That ordeal is over though and I've taken precautions to make sure it doesn't happen again.
May you never be locked out of your extraordinary machine, because if you do, it requires a mind wipe!
She did, however, like a cranky baby lock me out.
I mean, okay, maybe I shouldn't have changed the default password of her login at 1 am when I was knackered and then not remember it when I woke up the next day.
Maybe.
Yeah, that probably has something to do with it.
So, yeah. I got her Friday afternoon and by Saturday morning I was locked out without anyway of getting back in.
As luck would have it, bff and her husband are software and hardware people when it comes to computers and they managed to save Elphaba.
Granted she returned to factory setting and the little I had downloaded was wiped, but it was all good, because I could get into my computer baby again.
And yet, there was much anxious tweeting and gesticulating to family members about my conundrum, because really? Forgetting my password on the first day of acquiring a new computer? Just... it's so silly.
Still, no one seemed to judge me too harshly. I was the one doing the self flagellation thing.
That ordeal is over though and I've taken precautions to make sure it doesn't happen again.
May you never be locked out of your extraordinary machine, because if you do, it requires a mind wipe!
