Kitta.net - Don’t feed or spank the monkey

I'm starving, I haven't eaten since later this afternoon.

Warning

Posted on Sunday, 19th August 2007 at 10:37pm

If you accidentally drop your MacBook onto a tiled floor - and you don’t suffer a heart attack or shock - upon inspection you may find it seems to work perfectly fine, not even a dent or shutdown. But be aware, before you go back to icanhascheezburger.com, BACK THE FUCKING SHIT UP, as it may still fail later leaving you minus two major uni assignments and plus a huge amount of stress. You will also be shocked to find yourself mourning a HDD.

More details will emerge when I stop pulling out my hair.

8 Responses to “Warning”

Mid AutumnHaze Says:
August 19th, 2007 at 10:57pm
Sympathise with you
my 2 week old 320GB hdd just died….dead, flat, still, zero, zilch, nothing :S
Half the shit on there, wasn’t baked up :’(
So yeah….but I didn’t drop it….oopz
Sameer Vasta Says:
August 19th, 2007 at 11:50pm
Knowing almost exactly where you’re coming from (except mine was my PowerBook), today I mourn with you in solidarity..
Chris G. Says:
August 20th, 2007 at 3:21am
I cannot stress how important backing up is. Having at least a weekly backup (a nightly though is much better) is extremely important.

When you have important papers, e-mailing copies to another e-mail account (such as a gmail one or your school account) is definitely a lifesaver.
Morgan Roderick Says:
August 20th, 2007 at 6:30pm
Yet another post, reminding us all how important good backup is … even more true for laptop users, who tend to be a bit more brutal with their gear.

Hope your favourite gadget recovers soon Kitta.
markku Says:
August 25th, 2007 at 1:38am
That is really sad.
Warza Says:
August 25th, 2007 at 9:41pm
Back in the good old days, three months ago, when I was writing my dissertation I would e-mail myself my dissertation every time I saved the file. As a result there was less chance of losing too much in a single go.

Upon saying that though, I would hate to drop my own laptop onto a tiled floor.

I have had video hard drives crash on many more than once on a single assignment and understand the feeling of loss that you are currently experiencing.

Good luck with recuperating the work.
Tom Says:
August 28th, 2007 at 3:19am
Ouch! Good luck with that….
Cia Says:
August 29th, 2007 at 7:55pm
I haven’t been to your site in ages. But this monKey thingie made me think about all the hard work you put in just to keep the world safe. So I thought I’d share it with you.

http://www.totally-funky.co.uk/pages/funky/productView.asp?ID=1730&SID=833

If you have any questions, comments, recommendations, feedback or constructive criticism on this entry please feel free to leave a comment, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Try to stay on topic, I'd rather you email me thoughts that are off topic. If you're a troll who is in a foul mood and just wants to feel superior by flaming me, don't bother, comments from those who don't know how to criticise properly will be deleted. This is an unsolicited advice free zone. I love comments, chit-chat, musings and banter, but please keep my comments free of unsolicited advice. If I want your advice, I'll ask for it. Failure to leave a real name or email may result in your comment not being posted or being deleted and if it's kept up you will be banned. Comments do not reflect the thoughts of the owner of this site and they may be edited or deleted if spelling, coding or factual mistakes are present.

Line and paragraph breaks automatically of course, IP's are logged and you may use these HTML/XHTML tags in your comment(s):<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>