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RaGe
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Belgium9950 Posts
May 12 2009 00:07 GMT
#1
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

****
Moderatorsometimes I get intimidated by the size of my right testicle
Sonu
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada577 Posts
May 12 2009 00:10 GMT
#2
u have now learned the Golden rule of computing
"I really like this wall-in, because its not a fucking wall" - DAy[9]
Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
May 12 2009 00:10 GMT
#3
Wow...

Sucks T_T
Semipro Terran player | Pokebunny#1710 | twitter.com/Pokebunny | twitch.tv/Pokebunny | facebook.com/PokebunnySC
Titusmaster6
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States5937 Posts
May 12 2009 00:10 GMT
#4
damn sorry to hear that. gl
Shorts down shorts up, BOOM, just like that.
So no fek
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States3001 Posts
May 12 2009 00:12 GMT
#5
Ouch, that sucks really hard. :/

Sorry you had to learn the back up lesson the hard way.
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fanatacist
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
10319 Posts
May 12 2009 00:13 GMT
#6
): 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
Peace~
kidd
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
United States2848 Posts
May 12 2009 00:18 GMT
#7
That is very unfortunate.
Hi
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24767 Posts
May 12 2009 00:19 GMT
#8
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 :<
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
Xeofreestyler
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
Belgium6775 Posts
May 12 2009 00:20 GMT
#9
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
Graphics
Xeofreestyler
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
Belgium6775 Posts
May 12 2009 00:20 GMT
#10
also I just made a backup of all my stuff lol
Graphics
KizZBG
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
u gotta skate8152 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-12 00:37:14
May 12 2009 00:25 GMT
#11
nvm google is my friend.
eSTRO for life | #2 Sea.Really fan! | #1 GosI[Flying] fan! | Clide - best SC2 terran!
Kennelie
Profile Joined December 2007
United States2296 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-12 00:27:38
May 12 2009 00:26 GMT
#12
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.


ya had ya shot kid!
ReCharge
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Philippines505 Posts
May 12 2009 00:32 GMT
#13
Aw damn, that sucks
David Kim for Bonjwa!
Aylear
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Norway3988 Posts
May 12 2009 00:35 GMT
#14
Making backup of everything. I just remembered it's been months.
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FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11556 Posts
May 12 2009 00:35 GMT
#15
ouch :|
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
vAltyR
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States581 Posts
May 12 2009 01:09 GMT
#16
Backing up is the most important thing that most people don't do, and it fucking sucks when you forget to do it.
내 호버크라프트는 장어로 가득 차 있어요
Archaic
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States4024 Posts
May 12 2009 01:55 GMT
#17
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.
omfghi2u2
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States831 Posts
May 12 2009 01:59 GMT
#18
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.

Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
May 12 2009 02:28 GMT
#19
Getting stoned was definitely a good call.
EsX_Raptor
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2802 Posts
May 12 2009 02:35 GMT
#20
fuck man im literally hitting stuff right now because i know how much that shit sucks

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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