wrote:
>
>(snip)
>
>> You'll see, about the time in your life when your prostate suddenly
>becomes
>> a matter of concern, I promise.
>
>I don't think SHE has a prostate
>at least not her own.
Heh. Yeah, but I have plenty of squooshy parts of my own to worry about!
--"Oh, hell, don't let them drink your tears and want more!..I'll be damned if
death wears MY sadness for glad rags. Don't feed them one damn thing..Breathe!
Blow!"
"Nothing.....funny..."
"SURE there is! Me! You!..All of us!..Look!" -Ray Bradbury
Correspondent:: kdetal@aol.com (KD et al)
Date: 19 Oct 2004 01:02:21 GMT
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IDRMRSR wrote:
>Rant to KD:
>I can't believe I'm reading a post with questions such as yours. For you
>see, I am a silverhaired Yeti. I can remember the time before microwave
>ovens. Even Color TV. But, shit, not black and white TV, I'm not that
>fucking old.
You're not that much older than me, dingy.
>A miserable half century on this planet has caused me to answer your
>questions from a DIFFERENT perspective.
>
>As far as your undelete question is concerned, YOU GOT IT ALL BACKWARD!
>
>If you grew up with computers, you'd know that a GOOD BACKUP is all that is
>EVER required. If data is that fucking precious, it deserves to be backed
>UP...even many times a day if necessary. Never trust anything to a fucking
>computer, even for a few minutes. Presume every byte of storage is gone,
>even as you type it, unless you are holding TWO copies of it in your young
>little hands. Do that, and you'll never need an UNDELETE proggie again.
Duh! But some of us peons have no say how often our own computers are backed
up or anything that has to do with any decisions regarding them including
whether we even have back-up software.
I supposed I could save each of the 4 drives I work on, on disk every half
hour, but somehow I don't think that would be efficacious.
>With respect to DESIGN programs and whether they are EASY TO USE or
>not...*FUCK*...people USED to go to COLLEGE for YEARS and take tons of HARD
>MATH courses and break their CERVICAL VERTEBRAE bent over DRAWING BOARDS,
>choking on the fumes from developing BLUE PRINTS.
You know what- they still do that.
>And you want to pop a disk in and all of a sudden build a 3D universe...but
>only if it's EASY. Jeeebus H. Xrist!
Mmmhmm. The point is its not easy; you can't just pop in a tutorial and know
the specifications of blueprint design as well as understand the intricacies of
structual, electrical, plumbing, furniture and architectural design.
In essence, I agree with you. There's a reason people go to school for this.
>My only consolation is that you will prolly be explaining to your grand
>offspring how you had to have a LABORIOUS COMPUTER TUTORIAL to explain how
>to make 3D drawings instead of slurping some kind of Engineer Stem Cell
>Cocktail like they do to neural interface to the replicator.
No, I've refused to fulfil my sociological and biological duty and procreate.
However, hopefully, *somebody's* grandoffspring will START OFF in 3-D design or
BETTER rather than laboring in outdated models.
>You'll see, about the time in your life when your prostate suddenly becomes
>a matter of concern, I promise. Right around the time your grand offspring
>complain that the stem cell cocktail tastes SO YUCKY.
Lucky me, I get to miss the prostrate crisis since I'm female. I get to become
a poor old bag lady instead. Lucky me.
>Ooops, sorry that came off a little HARSH.
Don't harsh me, man.
--"Oh, hell, don't let them drink your tears and want more!..I'll be damned if
death wears MY sadness for glad rags. Don't feed them one damn thing..Breathe!
Blow!"
"Nothing.....funny..."
"SURE there is! Me! You!..All of us!..Look!" -Ray Bradbury
Correspondent:: Zapanaz
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:53:27 -0700
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On 19 Oct 2004 01:02:21 GMT, kdetal@aol.com (KD et al) wrote:
>Duh! But some of us peons have no say how often our own computers are backed
>up or anything that has to do with any decisions regarding them including
>whether we even have back-up software.
>I supposed I could save each of the 4 drives I work on, on disk every half
>hour, but somehow I don't think that would be efficacious.
I have never seen a computer backed up more than once a day ... I
think mister sister may have had a sudden convulsion of OLD CODGER'S
DISEASE.
You can set up a sytem to back up a compuer as often as you want, you
emntioned elsewhere though that you need a signed note from God and
Timothy Leary and Bill Gates in order to install anything on your box,
so that screws most of my ideas.
The problem though, really, is that if you are using Windows, even if
you had such a system in place, you'd have been screwed, because most
likely when a backup run started, you would have had this file open
(you say it was new and you were working on it) and 99% of apps in
Windows take advantage of Window's completely fucking deranged policy
of "locking" files when you open them. This means that NOTHING ELSE
can read the file. It is impossible, as far as I know, to override.
99.999999999999999999 % of the time, it seves NO PURPOSE WHATSOEVER.
But Windows loves to "lock files" and applications under Windows think
Bill Gates will notice and fall in love with the developers if they
take advantage of this nifty feature.
So anyway, most likely even if you had a 4/day backup, the file you
were working on would not have been backed up.
--
Zapanaz
International Satanic Conspiracy
Customer Support Specialist
http://joecosby.com/
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of the files from your hard drive and post this virus to other news
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Correspondent:: kdetal@aol.com (KD et al)
Date: 19 Oct 2004 20:49:42 GMT
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Zapanaz wrote:
>So anyway, most likely even if you had a 4/day backup, the file you
>were working on would not have been backed up.
>
Thanks Joe, good to know.
Luckily it wasn't a major crisis, but it *was* a valuable lesson
--"Oh, hell, don't let them drink your tears and want more!..I'll be damned if
death wears MY sadness for glad rags. Don't feed them one damn thing..Breathe!
Blow!"
"Nothing.....funny..."
"SURE there is! Me! You!..All of us!..Look!" -Ray Bradbury
Correspondent:: "iDRMRSR"
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 23:48:36 -0400
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KD:
>>Lucky me, I get to miss the prostrate crisis since I'm female. I get to
become
a poor old bag lady instead. Lucky me.
Yeah, well, some people think I'm a Lesbian.
Geez, that's one of the other risks an old fart runs when ranting and
posting PAST MY BEDTIME. Heh, you get used to getting it all WRONG, too,
about the time the parts of your bod that are usually really, really smooth,
get wrinkled.
Next time I go after somebody, I'm going to check all the facts before I let
my knee jerk, m'kay? Oh, hell, why bother.
[*]
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Correspondent:: kdetal@aol.com (KD et al)
Date: 19 Oct 2004 20:47:54 GMT
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idrmrsr wrote:
>KD:
>
>>>Lucky me, I get to miss the prostrate crisis since I'm female. I get to
>become
>a poor old bag lady instead. Lucky me.
>
>Yeah, well, some people think I'm a Lesbian.
>
>Geez, that's one of the other risks an old fart runs when ranting and
>posting PAST MY BEDTIME. Heh, you get used to getting it all WRONG, too,
>about the time the parts of your bod that are usually really, really smooth,
>get wrinkled.
>
>Next time I go after somebody, I'm going to check all the facts before I let
>my knee jerk, m'kay? Oh, hell, why bother.
You can come after me anytime sweetie.
It may be the only action I get!
--"Oh, hell, don't let them drink your tears and want more!..I'll be damned if
death wears MY sadness for glad rags. Don't feed them one damn thing..Breathe!
Blow!"
"Nothing.....funny..."
"SURE there is! Me! You!..All of us!..Look!" -Ray Bradbury
Correspondent:: Cardinal Vertigo
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:24:53 GMT
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KD et al wrote:
> Any workable suggestions?
Repent, quit your job, and slack off.
Correspondent:: kdetal@aol.com (KD et al)
Date: 19 Oct 2004 20:51:53 GMT
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Vertigo wrote:
> Any workable suggestions?
>
>Repent, quit your job, and slack off.
>
Nah, the concept of starvation and homelessness would take away *all* my slack.
As it is, I still have a pretty joyously slackful life.
--"Oh, hell, don't let them drink your tears and want more!..I'll be damned if
death wears MY sadness for glad rags. Don't feed them one damn thing..Breathe!
Blow!"
"Nothing.....funny..."
"SURE there is! Me! You!..All of us!..Look!" -Ray Bradbury