- ([info]entangledbank) wrote,
@ 2004-08-17 20:48:00
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Current mood: depressed
Current music:Beethoven, Emperor Concerto, Brendel

Oh. Good.
So the Internet is the slowest it's ever been. So I wonder because I don't know any better if I've got a "virus". So I find my virus checker is "disabled". So I wonder how that happened and click on settings and it takes forever to respond. So I try to shut the machine down. So that doesn't respond. So I do it by brute force. So when I reload it comes up saying some system file can't be found. So I have to reformat by factory CDs. So I'm very lucky to have the Internet logon phone number and password scrawled on a piece of paper amongst the thousands. So I'm here now (waves hi) but my machine has funny colour schemes and icons and clicking sounds like when you just get it new. And not the files I used to have on it. The most critical were on a floppy or emailed to myself or on websites designed specifically for the reason that I knew my machine would suddenly instanteously die. But it's a bit of a sodding learning curve when it happens.


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[info]firynze
2004-08-17 12:59 pm UTC (link)
Y'know, that always happens at the worst possible time, too.

One of my best friends had his computer go *pouf* while he was working on his thesis. Damn fool hadn't backed it up in about three revisions, either...so he had to grab a hard copy from his advisor and retype the whole thing, adding and re-revising as he went.

I could hear the sobs from my place, a half-mile away.

Here's hoping the gremlins get out of your system now.

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ex_greythist387
2004-08-17 05:34 pm UTC (link)
Sorry to hear, and glad you had the most critical material backed up somewhere. System failures are such a mess.

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