Here's one for you, all those projects lying around on your HDD (we have a group for those btw ). Ever taken a quick peek back at how things used to be done? In my recent Natty upgrade (I want to go baaaack, its under a month before release but jeesy-creesie i want to die nothing works) I had to back everything up and my cp -r -v came up with those seeet old names... So I checked them out and I remembered all of the 'state of the art' GPME (General Purpose Map Engine), GPAI (General Purpose Audio Interface), GPTI (GP Text Interface) and of course MMI (MutliMedia Interface) I had written over the past 2 years. The 2700 lines associated to those and their projects; most of which has been revamped and optimized to over 3x speed and rebranded prometheus. Its one of those thing where you go all fuzzy inside.

So you hit the compile button and you forget: your in xterm failsafe, because that's all that works. I doubt I'll ever forget booting up XFCE and LXDE and OpenBox those last few times just to run that sentimental old core one last time... Its a bit of a shame I lost some of those to a stupid inode epic fail which wiped a load of it permanently from my backup ... Its sometimes all too easy to forget how lucky we are when EXT4 works and everything else does...

But thankfully I remembered: this is ubuntu linux, its fixeable. If this was a few months ago and I was on windoze wouldn't I be screwed?

I guess that code is on some CD somewhere now and it really is time to stop using some really old code. My lesson in life would be rather ironic: 'Don't backup - everything you really care for is already mirrored on the HDD of some other laptop or desktop, usb or cd you use, a crash isn't all bad. Its progress, progression from old relics of code to the new.'

Sorry for those whom only read the posts/forums for non-philosophical stuff but I couldn't help put this up for everyone else who's had a crash and lost stuff... And a word of warning: Natty is fine while it works. Thats not as often as maverick. Linux users: maverick is fine, natty is interesting but I'll be honest: unity and everything thats new spoils it. Right now, I wish I was andru or one of those that understand simplicity is best. Where that arch live again?