Computers and Life...
Posted: Tuesday 14th May 2019 6:05am
Sometimes computers and life can be so cruel. Right at the end of March I had a massive hard drive failure while working on a new Gambas project. One moment I was cruising right along accessing a db, and the next moment my app was crashing because the db disappeared!
It was the drive I stored everything. Twelve years of photos, documents, downloads, Gambas apps, Gambas projects, databases, etc. (I had a major HD failure 12 years ago and lost thousands of photos.) I had gotten lazy the last few years about doing backups mainly because of life got in the way. And to make everything worse, shortly after the failure, I discovered my few existing backups were garbage. And to add insult to injury, my other computer, which was running Debian, decided to not want to let me access it, no how, no way. On the Debian box I had copies of some of my projects, but I couldn't get to them. No problem, I thought. I'll just reinstall Debian, grab my projects, and life will be a little better. I chose the wrong partition to format and wiped out my projects. At this point I'm just ready to toss all my computers into the trash and be done with it.
For about the last year or so I was getting frustrated with the way OpenSuSE was degrading and giving me problems and at times I just wanted to give up on computers, and technology in general, and go back to the simple life I had before computers and internet. I was actually looking forward to doing that.
I guess HAL9000 couldn't let me have a peaceful life again and had to show me who was actually in control of my life. I'm now running a RAID setup. OpenSuSE is gone -- I'm now running Debian on all my boxes. And, I'm learning how to program in Gambas again as most of my projects were a lot of copy and pasting of code from other projects and didn't require much thinking on my part.
I guess I'm stuck in this cruel world of computers and technology....
It was the drive I stored everything. Twelve years of photos, documents, downloads, Gambas apps, Gambas projects, databases, etc. (I had a major HD failure 12 years ago and lost thousands of photos.) I had gotten lazy the last few years about doing backups mainly because of life got in the way. And to make everything worse, shortly after the failure, I discovered my few existing backups were garbage. And to add insult to injury, my other computer, which was running Debian, decided to not want to let me access it, no how, no way. On the Debian box I had copies of some of my projects, but I couldn't get to them. No problem, I thought. I'll just reinstall Debian, grab my projects, and life will be a little better. I chose the wrong partition to format and wiped out my projects. At this point I'm just ready to toss all my computers into the trash and be done with it.
For about the last year or so I was getting frustrated with the way OpenSuSE was degrading and giving me problems and at times I just wanted to give up on computers, and technology in general, and go back to the simple life I had before computers and internet. I was actually looking forward to doing that.
I guess HAL9000 couldn't let me have a peaceful life again and had to show me who was actually in control of my life. I'm now running a RAID setup. OpenSuSE is gone -- I'm now running Debian on all my boxes. And, I'm learning how to program in Gambas again as most of my projects were a lot of copy and pasting of code from other projects and didn't require much thinking on my part.
I guess I'm stuck in this cruel world of computers and technology....