Well the power has been going on and off all day here. We've been told to expect rolling blackouts through the weekend.
But on a personal note, I may have the Forum's first casualty of the blackouts:
My Primary Hard Drive is dead. She's making the same grinding noise my smaller Drive did Last year, and that Drive had to be shipped to Maxtor for replacement. When I initially got power restored Last night the Hard Drive seemed to boot fine, but after about 5 mins on the Desktop the System started to stall, and I got a lovely "authenticating installer" message from an unknown program. I shut the System down right away, but when I tried turning the computer back on the BIOS wouldn't read the Primary Drive anymore. I even plugged the Drive into a 2nd computer we have in the house and it can't be detected in that System either.
Fortunately I did save almost all my DoGa models onto a ZIP Disk. I say "almost all" because there are a few Neo-Standard images for the Psycho Trapper set which I completed after I had done the inital save. All the in-game BMPs and AI files are gone though, but they can be replaced with a bit of elbow grease. I'm more upset with the new web pages I had built which were going to be debuted when the set was released. Oh well, more elbow work.
Good thing I only threw out my shoulder while playing football yesterday, and not my elbow.
I don't know for certain if the blackout helped bring the Drive into the hands of the Reaper, especially since I apparently had a mystery program tying to install something. Coincidences do happen afterall.
To Kwok & Hugh and the others that shared about their Hard Drive failures from a few months back, I say thank you! I likely wouldn't have backed anything up if that string of bad luck you guys had eariler hadn't hit. Your words of caution have saved at least one person.
Although in truth, i'd gladly suffer a Drive failure if the failure would have in some way prevented the failure Kwok & Hugh had. The work they lost greatly overshadows what i've been able to save.
Oh well, cyber life goes on. Fortunately the 13GB Drive that was replaced Last year is still working well, so she'll do while I get the 40GB replaced. Oh well, it's nearly time for a massive upgrade to my computer anyways
Oh, and did I mention that the BLaster Worm apparently found it's way onto my 13GB Drive, which hasen't been used since Last September? Even weirder is that the BLaster Worm haden't infected my 40GB (Primary) Drive at all.
Oh well, I better stop before I derail this Thread. That's Narf's & GW's job
(edited to fix avatar problem)
[ August 17, 2003, 00:36: Message edited by: Katchoo ]