VICTORY!!!
May. 29th, 2011 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daidoji_giseiI just finished installing the keyboard software and am using the new keyboard to type this entry. Yay!
When we last left our heroine, she was styimied by the fact that to install the keyboard software by the fact that the installer software needed her password, and said password used keys that didn't work on the laptop's keyboard. Cut-and-paste wouldn't work, because the installer literally demanded that the password be typed.
So. This afternoon I was poking around System Preferences, trying to figure out why I can download and install any random third-party software from anywhere on the internet without a password but need one for OFFICIAL APPLE SOFTWARE DOWNLOADED OFF OF THE OFFICIAL APPLE WEBSITE when I discovered that it had a function for changing one's account password--and that *did* allow for cut-and-paste of the old password.
At that point I got up and left the room to think, because I was suddenly terrified that if I tried this I could screw things up even more. After thinking through all the foreseeable consequences I decided that I couldn't make things worse than they already were--I was already headed for the worst-case scenario of being completely locked out of my computer. I could possibly make that scenario come around faster, but sometimes it's better to make the shoe drop yourself than to have it dropped on you. I opened up an old fiction, cut-and-pasted my old password together, chose a new password based on a word my wounded keyboard could produce, and made the switch. Then I restarted the installer, fed it the new password and.... it installed.
I had my heart in my mouth as I waited for the computer to reboot, but when it did the new keyboard worked. I can now type stories and send emails from home. And now I can finally get my DSL set up! (I hope.)
When we last left our heroine, she was styimied by the fact that to install the keyboard software by the fact that the installer software needed her password, and said password used keys that didn't work on the laptop's keyboard. Cut-and-paste wouldn't work, because the installer literally demanded that the password be typed.
So. This afternoon I was poking around System Preferences, trying to figure out why I can download and install any random third-party software from anywhere on the internet without a password but need one for OFFICIAL APPLE SOFTWARE DOWNLOADED OFF OF THE OFFICIAL APPLE WEBSITE when I discovered that it had a function for changing one's account password--and that *did* allow for cut-and-paste of the old password.
At that point I got up and left the room to think, because I was suddenly terrified that if I tried this I could screw things up even more. After thinking through all the foreseeable consequences I decided that I couldn't make things worse than they already were--I was already headed for the worst-case scenario of being completely locked out of my computer. I could possibly make that scenario come around faster, but sometimes it's better to make the shoe drop yourself than to have it dropped on you. I opened up an old fiction, cut-and-pasted my old password together, chose a new password based on a word my wounded keyboard could produce, and made the switch. Then I restarted the installer, fed it the new password and.... it installed.
I had my heart in my mouth as I waited for the computer to reboot, but when it did the new keyboard worked. I can now type stories and send emails from home. And now I can finally get my DSL set up! (I hope.)
no subject
Date: 2011-05-29 10:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-29 11:36 pm (UTC)