 RaGe Belgium. May 12 2009 09:07. Posts 7607 | Profile Blog |
A couple of months ago, Carnac introduced me to a guy who had a job offer for anyone that could speak Dutch. The specifics were nice. A job with flexibility and good pay.
It involved checking a log file for a web application that categorizes websites.
Now, yesterday my main HDD crashed. Full headcrash, the thing is worthless with like 1% of the files damaged. I used Knoppix (linux live cd) to try and recover data. Oh man was I glad when I saw that I could still browse the disk, only some folders made the file browser completely crash.
So me, having done 30 hours of work the past 3 weeks, sped through the file mapping towards my logrun folder. That folder was literally worth a shit ton of my time, and money too.
I click it.
File browser crashes.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu
I rebooted, tried again, it crashed again.
Then I did the only possible thing I could do. Smoked half a pack of cigarettes in 2 hours and called friends to say that I needed to get stoned fast and hard.
ALWAYS
MAKE
BACKUPS
i sure never will forget again
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 Sonu Canada. May 12 2009 09:10. Posts 577 | Profile Blog |
| u have now learned the Golden rule of computing |
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 Pokebunny United States. May 12 2009 09:10. Posts 1894 | Profile Blog | |
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 Titusmaster6 United States. May 12 2009 09:10. Posts 2151 | Profile Blog |
| damn sorry to hear that. gl |
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 So no fek United States. May 12 2009 09:12. Posts 1620 | Profile Blog |
Ouch, that sucks really hard. :/
Sorry you had to learn the back up lesson the hard way. |
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 fanatacist Angola. May 12 2009 09:13. Posts 9486 | Profile Blog |
): Rough
One time I had a job translating Russian math textbooks into English. I would do it simultaneously with other things such as AIM and Team Liquid and etc.
True story, I was deleting what I was writing in AIM during an argument with a friend by pressing Ctrl+A, delete. Accidentally I had clicked on the word processor instead of the window box and didn't realize it. When I realized what I had done I instantly pressed Ctrl+Z to undo it, but the computer started lagging - all the PPT charts, Russian font, English font, tables and images being deleted starting slowing down my computer to a point of standstill. In desperation I left my laptop on for the night to give it time to fix itself, knowing I can press ctrl+z whenever I get back and it is done deleting.
What I forgot to do was make sure the laptop was plugged in. I come back upstairs a few hours later after hanging out with friends, and I see my laptop is dead. I boot it back up. I restore file.
Fucking Microsoft Word auto-saved the file with nothing in it because the computer died -_-
At least $300 dollars worth of work on my part, gone. I didn't have the heart to do it all over again. I called the guy and told him I quit. He is my parents' friend's dad, so whenever I have to see him during New Years celebrations when my parents take me to visit, it is so fucking awkward and embarassing T_T |
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 kidd United States. May 12 2009 09:18. Posts 2090 | Profile Blog |
| That is very unfortunate. |
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| micronesia United States. May 12 2009 09:19. Posts 9999 | Profile Blog |
| Reminds me of when I accidentally overwrote all the grades for a college course, except it wasn't your fault. Eventually, you'll be able to look back and laugh at it, but yeah the backup lesson is one that has to be learned the hard way :< |
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 Xeofreestyler Belgium. May 12 2009 09:20. Posts 5739 | Profile Blog |
| umm hi Im from the internet and I would like to point out that its obviously drugs that made your computer crash and your day suck |
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| Xeofreestyler Belgium. May 12 2009 09:20. Posts 5739 | Profile Blog |
| also I just made a backup of all my stuff lol |
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 KizZBG UK mofo. May 12 2009 09:25. Posts 7037 | Profile Blog |
| nvm google is my friend. Last edit: 2009-05-12 09:37:14 |
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| Kennelie United States. May 12 2009 09:26. Posts 2145 | Profile |
oh yea that sucks. 2008 Christmas year my server at my job crashed and the previous two months of work was not saved and I had close to 4k orders that had to be tracked down through the office and entered all over again. Oh man was that a bitch but I got paid a good chunk of money for reentering the data.
On May 12 2009 09:20 Xeofreestyler wrote:
also I just made a backup of all my stuff lol
i just did this after reading the blog.
P.S. Getting stoned never hurts nobody.
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 ReCharge Philippines. May 12 2009 09:32. Posts 436 | Profile Blog | |
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 Aylear Norway. May 12 2009 09:35. Posts 106 | Profile Blog |
| Making backup of everything. I just remembered it's been months. |
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 FragKrag United States. May 12 2009 09:35. Posts 4680 | Profile Blog | |
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 vAltyR United States. May 12 2009 10:09. Posts 524 | Profile Blog |
| Backing up is the most important thing that most people don't do, and it fucking sucks when you forget to do it. |
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 Archaic Taiwan. May 12 2009 10:55. Posts 3031 | Profile Blog |
| What happened to be, is my backup storage was the disk that died... I lost all my backups, and all of my music... But I have to say, this sucks more. I feel for you, RaGe. |
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 omfghi2u2 United States. May 12 2009 10:59. Posts 542 | Profile Blog |
On May 12 2009 09:07 RaGe wrote:
Then I did the only possible thing I could do. Smoked half a pack of cigarettes in 2 hours and called friends to say that I needed to get stoned fast and hard.
LOL.
nice solution.
Sorry to hear about your loss mate.
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| Mastermind Canada. May 12 2009 11:28. Posts 2953 | Profile Blog |
| Getting stoned was definitely a good call. |
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 EsX_Raptor United States. May 12 2009 11:35. Posts 1719 | Profile Blog |
fuck man im literally hitting stuff right now because i know how much that shit sucks
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