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A quick absence note

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code_glitch
, 23-10-2010 at 11:34 AM (8705 Views)
Sorry for not being AFK for the past few days and not being a part of the community. I just suffered a system wide crash (both computers) for some really weird reasons (beyond BSOD) and had to resort to backing up 750GB worth of data off an old Ubuntu 8.1 live cd and a Mandriva 09 live cd then sifting through it all.

The rather funny side of it is after analysing the crash 'dump' as MS call it the result is that nothing happened and that the system was still working... Oh well, once I recover my compiler, IDE, code and all relevant settings, I'll be back up as a part of the community. This whole backup fad might not be such a bad idea actually now I think of it, but then again this is my 35th crash of all time (might be 37th if I count the two minor incidents last year) and every time thanks to good 'ol tux I got all my data and apps back. XD

So yes, I've got to de-crapifiy-ing my install (darn you acer... 6GB seriously...) and have avast! and chrome back up around 1 hour ago. (had to work out the wifi code again. Thanks orange).

So that ends my quick note from me.

cheers,
code_glitch.

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  1. WILL's Avatar
    You count your crashes? lmao

    I'm glad your data is safe though. Hate losing things like that, myself.
  2. code_glitch's Avatar
    Oh yes, I count them so that I can safely say:
    Macs don't crash. Why don't I need one? My system doesn't crash... Too often.
    I've avoided mac/apple like the plague over time... But life is often ironic, and you' really laugh at what I did to gnome on my shiny new OpenSUSE which I installed yesterday... Oh it looked absolutely fantastic. For around 35 seconds and now it KAPUT. So I went back to what I'm more familiar with: A good 'ol Ubuntu setup. Mind you this one is a 10.10 Maverick so its still quite warm out of the burner and its one heck of a makeover from Intrepid and even Jaunty. Up unit 2-3 days ago I was using Intrepid to save my data, and Karmic to sift through it all. The new face of Ubuntu may just have made me make that final step away from M$. Hello linux crowd, byebye crashes.

    cheers for the response though, it's rather lonely looking at a terminal $ DOS prompt copying hundreds of gigs of files.
    code_glitch.

    PS: Ubuntu's gnome is around 100x more stable than the gnome on OpenSUSE. This one's made it 8hours+ no errors... Wonder why? And Zipper (Zippy?) as a package manager is not cool, APT is sooo much nicer. Hopefuly back up in a few days again and contributing some more with more lines into Prometheus but until I find which file its in I'm screwed. (The backup renamed everything in Users\ into ~0001.dat ~0002.dat and etc... I'm sorting through them with a quick batch script. Everything that looks like exe go byebye and everything that starts with 'unit' or 'program' gets put aside.
  3. WILL's Avatar
    Oh Linux isn't impervious to crashing let me tell you. There are installations of Linux that can make a grown admin cry. But at least you don't have to pay for the pain of using it, AND if you are a dedicated hardcore code monkey you can fix it yourself. Mind you it seems that the Ubuntu project has finally changed much of that. I've installed and worked with it before and I was extremely impressed with it. I haven't seen it since 10.8 I believe, but it might be neat to see what it looks like now. Post a screenie if you can.