Tuesday, April 7, 2009

What a way to ruin a day

In my time I've seen a lot of computer errors.

Dead hard drives. That smell of burning plastic. I've even seen sparks flying.

There are two things I fear the most. The hard drive that departs this world for the next carrying 100gb of my data with it. For this can cause unheralded misery - can I get my photos back? When did I back it up last?

The other is a completely different form of panic.

You've arranged to meet someone online. You've got a raid planned. An email to write. Something that must be done, NOW, online. And it fails.

You run though all the usual fixes, trying to breath life into the shattered web. Renew the IPs. Check the cabling. Reboot this. Tweak that.

And all you get is this...



Meet my sunday.

2 comments:

manannan said...

oops :)

How long did that last?

Still no patch (3.1) looks like the easter event will happen after Easter!!!

Born Today said...

Long enough to cause people to ask "Where did he go. Wasn't he here a minute ago?"