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It just keeps getting worse
15 years ago
The power supply in my main 3.5ghz 20 terabyte server caught fire on Monday. I'm trying to recover all of that data but may have lost several years of emails and research. Bummer. However, onward through the fog and keep moving forward and all that. Still right now all I can think is, SHIT!!!!
I'd already backed up a lot of that data but, SHIT!!!!! none the less....... Lost all of my saved Furaffinity files. :sad: But there is always a bright light. The lab is filled with a lot of volatile chemicals that can explode if you look at them wrong. Because of that I enclose anything that could possibly be a hazard in it's own case. That confined the fire to the server destroying the drives but, the lab didn't explode. And I have several DVD-ROM backups that with a lot of effort will allow me to at least get a running start on getting the AI I use to help me run the lab (I usually work alone so it's necessary) back to at least a re-learning stage.
It's name is Prometheus by the way. Ironic. 20,000,000,000 bytes of data is a lot but I'm a bit paranoid so I backup frequently. I got an automated CD duplicator a few years back and modified it to do automated DVD-ROM backups of the Linux and Windows systems so it's a start. I guess you do learn from your mistakes. Still, I feel like crying a bit. The AI's high resolution stereoscopic vision system is toast. And the voice synthesis hardware and software is so old I'm probably going to have to redesign them from scratch. Sorry I'm rambling but I'm still really upset and I guess I need to vent a bit.
Some asshole ran into my van. Bummer. I'm working on repairs to the van. A power surge in the town I live killed all of the rest of my computers and my televisions and I'm wondering if the universe is out to get me. I haven't been able to eat for 5 days. On top of that my identity was stolen and my bank account drained of over 2500 dollars. I'm afraid to go around my friends in case it rubs off. I'm not going to whine about it, it's just pissing me off. I've tracked the hackers back to Russia but that's no help.
I'd already backed up a lot of that data but, SHIT!!!!! none the less....... Lost all of my saved Furaffinity files. :sad: But there is always a bright light. The lab is filled with a lot of volatile chemicals that can explode if you look at them wrong. Because of that I enclose anything that could possibly be a hazard in it's own case. That confined the fire to the server destroying the drives but, the lab didn't explode. And I have several DVD-ROM backups that with a lot of effort will allow me to at least get a running start on getting the AI I use to help me run the lab (I usually work alone so it's necessary) back to at least a re-learning stage.
It's name is Prometheus by the way. Ironic. 20,000,000,000 bytes of data is a lot but I'm a bit paranoid so I backup frequently. I got an automated CD duplicator a few years back and modified it to do automated DVD-ROM backups of the Linux and Windows systems so it's a start. I guess you do learn from your mistakes. Still, I feel like crying a bit. The AI's high resolution stereoscopic vision system is toast. And the voice synthesis hardware and software is so old I'm probably going to have to redesign them from scratch. Sorry I'm rambling but I'm still really upset and I guess I need to vent a bit.
Some asshole ran into my van. Bummer. I'm working on repairs to the van. A power surge in the town I live killed all of the rest of my computers and my televisions and I'm wondering if the universe is out to get me. I haven't been able to eat for 5 days. On top of that my identity was stolen and my bank account drained of over 2500 dollars. I'm afraid to go around my friends in case it rubs off. I'm not going to whine about it, it's just pissing me off. I've tracked the hackers back to Russia but that's no help.
KishnievRat
~kishnievrat
I'd become pretty damn conspiracy-paranoid by now. :(
dratomic
~dratomic
OP
DHS came knocking and I had to defend myself. Slowed things down for the last few months. Fuck them. I've decided to crank things up a few notches. I'd say why I need this fusion reactor but I'd probably have someone else trying to rip my head off and crap down my neck. Let's just say that time isn't as fixed and immutable as it's made out to be. Information isn't governed by physics. It can be sent in reverse. Finding a receiver is the problem. Especially if that receiver is supposed to be yourself. I'm not sure how to solve that quandary. Unless I've already sent myself information that's let me do the experiments I'm doing now. My head hurts. I do have some weird net mail thats helped a lot. On another note the rocket with the gamma detector reached 23,000 feet before I lost it. I hope whoever finds it sends me some e-mail so I can get it back. The telemetry was great but I'd like to get the atmospheric sampler plates back. BTW, if you fly a lot, get a cancer screening. And I'm hoping I don't screw things up. I mean, someone has to have tried this before right? the worst that's happened so far is an unexpected neutron burst from too much deuterium in the initial startup. What could go wrong?
