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By: Decomposed in POPE 5 | Recommend this post (2)
Tue, 07 May 19 12:11 AM | 44 view(s)
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I mentioned earlier that I'm no fan of Chrome OS. Today's experience didn't change that.

I came in from outdoors - where I'd taken some nice photos of . . . *ahem* . . . FLOWERS, and had just moved them from my micro-sd card to the Chromebook when the OS asked me if I'd like Google Drive to automatically backup my images. I thought "Sure," and gave it the okay. At about that time, the network went down.

I kept checking it over the next several hours and it stayed down. Oddly enough, when I powered down, my wife reported that it had come back up... but it went down again EVERY time that I brought the Chromebook up.
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I've only rarely heard of this sort of a problem, and it usually has to do with crossed wires or some other sort of defective hardware. An internet node that crashes the entire network??? I eventually figured out that my chromebook really was doing that. Since I had little on the machine, I did a factory reset and spent about twenty minutes reconfiguring to the way I like it. Yes, that fixed the problem.
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My GUESS is that google's backup application was hosing the network with so many errors that the network became unusable. Every time I powered off, everything came back up. Very, very strange...
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If this had happened to me under Windows, it would have been a 48 hour setback. Chrome, though, uses Google Drive so extensively that resetting the entire box and configuring it anew was extremely easy. That's the ONE good thing about this operating system. The only good thing, imo.
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Now back to what precipitated this fiasco. I found these growing in the back yard today. The previous owner obviously had a passion for flowers. She's been dead for fifteen years so these have been untended for at least that long. We've identified them as daffodils, jonquils and hyacinths. They're bulb-based, so it should be easy to dig them up and put them someplace where I won't be running them over with my tractor every time I mow.





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