That I was not completely scorched by my failure to follow this ask three times dictum is good luck, not good planning. I realized I hadn't allocated enough memory for an SDR partition (which I realize sounds a lot like I said I just decided my bumble fork didn't have enough ratchety tachets and I should get some more. Nonsense.) Anyhow, I call the Creator. Bob.
Bob, I say, what size thingumies do you use over at Acronym central?? Foo. Says Bob. So I should just resize mine to that? Probably says bob. Cheeroh! Says I. Click.
I proceed without caution. Make my changes, click save. When the save button comes un-grey (the universal indicator that it's done doing whatever it was up to) I hit the Cycle button (that's Restart in your language.) I begin to restart and watch the program die a horrible death. It tries to self resuscitate a few dozen times. I try to get in with the secret configuration tool of death, but no luck. I've killed it. At least a half day of fussy hand-configuration down the toilet. Dammit.
I call Bob, the Creator, again. Bob, my bumble fork's gone south and it won't come back up. It keeps calling a Mr. Deadman P. Shutdown. What gives?
Oh, says Bob. That's the uninitiated's right of passage. You must do over all that you did before. It will teach you the value of patience.
Dammit. Says I. That's not ok. I'm in client space and time's a wastin'.
OOOOKaaay says Bob, but you will not be a true initiate. I can give you one get out of patience lessons free card. You sure you want it?
Gimme says I. The bumble fork is behind schedule already.
Bob whispers the secret password in my cell phone earbud.
Really? That's it???
So all is well back here in client bumble fork land. Will I ever learn patience? Perhaps not. But I have learned that SDR has a save configuration to file tool. And my ratchety tachets are just fine now, thanks for asking.
Posted by karen at March 6, 2002 12:00 AM