Anchored Position 11 59.7 N 120 11.7 E
Coron, Busuanga Island
Our broken computer is once again up and running with a new 500 GB hard drive. Rather than taking two weeks to get the hard drive it took only four days. Of course that was only the beginning! Mark, the local computer repair technician installed the drive and Windows XP but said that we could load the necessary drivers either from a disk that came with the computer or the internet. It turned out that we had no disk from when we had purchased the computer and trying to figure out the drivers and load then was near impossible. Back to Mark. This time he deleted the XP that he had installed and re-installed a version from a disk that had been given to us by our friend Phil in Thailand, thanks Phil. I explained the driver problem to him and he went through and installed all the necessary Toshiba drivers, except for sound, that was left for us.
The next day I began with the sound driver. I located it on the internet. The download only took TWO HOURS!!! We now had sound and it was time to then load our navigation program, radio email etc. The process was slow, thankfully I received help from an old friend, Dave on the sailing vessel Lightspeed, and finally managed. Anything such as Picasa or a security program that is necessary to load from the internet takes hours at the speed we receive here. Kathy now wanted to work on her Itunes music. Thankfully she had her whole library on her Ipod, now to get it also on the computer. As one would imagine this has not been a simple process and one in which she has spent the last three days trying to figure out. From what we understand Itunes only allows you to do this with music you have purchased, all the music we have has been loaded from disks which we still carry about. Kathy is now trying various solution from the internet but once again we are running in to two hour download times and then after installation told we also need something else. Any comment on a solution would be welcomed.
Being here in the land of typhoons we keep a daily weather check and are now watching a system though very disorganized at this time that is moving toward us. The weather gurus are not predicting a typhoon at this time but some weather models say we could have 30 plus knots of wind here as the low pressure system passes. There is a very sheltered anchorage about 15 miles away to which we may move tomorrow.
meanwhile we're just sort of hanging out and watching the little green bars move as the downloads continue.
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