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I know y'all missed me and have had a terrible lonely time...

Mine wife said to me on Thursday night... "can I borrow your computer to check my email?"

Well I hadn't shut down yet and she had just got home and was waiting for an email about a new job... I chose to ignore my " I DO LOVE YOU BUT NO!!!" rule. I do remember telling her NOT to open any attachments.

I know y'all can see this one coming now...

long saga short... she got a weird email from a headhunter site and she clicked the "link" and whoopsie???

"Honey!!! The computer shut down..."

With extreme feeling of dread I went to look at a BSOD the likes of which I have never seen in XP Pro...

It started looking like a standard faulty operation... the dissolved into ramdom matrix like garbage soup with shattered colors and blinking non ascoo text.

I forced a shut down. Could not reboot. Bad or missing boot device...

I plopped the XP Pro CD in to the drive and tried a reboot... no hard drive found... uh oh!

long story short... fighting all weeked and finally broke down and bought some kewl parts and built myself a new monster.

AMD HEX core 3.2 w 4GB Ram... 800M SATA and 60GB SState HDD(to hold Windows 7 32 and 64! - dual boot) ATi on board (ASUS I got the box for the model around here somewhere) I can upgrade to a small slot graphics card but this one loves Quake 4 and thats fine for now!

soI am back... thank the elder gods that I backed up my POS software last week... my slotmachine last week. My rouge3D code is here and I can recreate my models in about 1 hour...

MORAL: Just say NO!

moral of the story "use passwords and run wife on limited abuser mode!"
Nice sounding box hope you gave her the bill.

use mirroring software to backup code, i use 'mirror folder" it's nice

Buy a couple USB thumbsticks, there ya go and dirt cheap

Sack the wife!

But then she'll take the House, the car, the kids and.... the money for the USB Thumbsticks

personally, I'm a big fan of DropBox - especially when syncing between 4 computers

I am back!

All good things must come to an end.

J/K WB!

I was wondering why there were no new Rook posts. I figured you had been kidnapped by Russian sea pirates hellbent on arctic domination.

So... when your wife asks to check her email on this new rig I bet you let her do it! Anyone want in on this bet?

Rook Zimbabwe wrote:I know y'all missed me and have had a terrible lonely time...

Really? I hadn't noticed that you were missing in the first place! But then I haven't been around here as much as I like recently. Hey, but welcome back anyway!

Your story gave me the willies except for one major difference, my system is always fully backed up. Every Saturday morning I do some basic system maintenance like cleaning out the registry, checking for Windows, software and driver updates. Then using Acronis True Image to do a backup my system. If it's the first saturday of the month I do a full backup, all other Saturdays, I do an incremental backup.

The first rule of computers: If it's important make a copy, if it's really important make several copies.

And then there's Gene's rule: Nobody but me touches my computer. You want to use a computer? Bring your own or find a public computer.

The Internet is a dangerous place even if you are only visiting trusted sites you've visited before. You have no way of knowing if a hacker has managed to break into a site and set it up to spread their garbage to unsuspecting visitors. Since I use IE which support ActiveX, a security hole you can fly a 747 through, I have ActiveX disabled for all but those few sites that earned a place in my trusted sites list. And I have my browser set up so that it always runs in a sandbox, that way if anything does get in, I can remove it by simply purging the contents of the sandbox.

I am considering switching to FireFox but after more than ten years using IE, making the change is hard.

Again, welcome back Rook and GET A GOOD BACKUP PLAN IN PLACE! There is no subtitute for a good backup.

I done have done the backup plan... I have a BluRay burner installed now... present from my former employer/Boss. I completely backed up the current HDD after running FULL SCAN and MALWARE scans on it.

I connected a ZIP drive to it as well and scheduled a backup of my PB DEVEL folder for FRIDAY (but I can plunk it with a desktop gadget button I wrote as well (my C++ apparently isn't all that rusty!))

Besides my weekly system backups with True Image to USB hard drives, one for even numbered months, and one for odd numbered months. I also have a continous backup running on those folders I consider critical.