Nobody bases their opinion of whether you are or aren’t a writer by your chosen medium for first drafts.
Well I guess we now know the answer to what is Tao’s *Revenge *and it is frightful.
Save often and verify is still an important rule and one I have instilled into my daughter and she is but 11.
So, you wait until the last minute to research and write this super-duper important paper, don’t bother to back up all along the way, and it’s Steve Jobs’ fault that you can’t find the file? Um, OK. Jackass.
Wait a minute, you have a problem when trying to interface MAC OSX that you are not that familiar with and some beta version of Windows and you jump to the conclusion that the MAC software screwed up? I hope your paper was not on critical thinking or analytical reasoning…
Best of luck , lord knows I screwed up several deadlines in college, it usually involved alcohol though.
No it doesn’t - he never even got the file into Windows, let alone Word.
But I’m very old and feeble and way beyond fighting. So I guess him kicking my butt would be a simple task. Maybe I’ll report him to the AARP.
Save onto your hard drive and a flash drive, darn it. No excuse not to have multiple copies of any important thing.
This is the kind of thing that really pisses me off in the tech support I do.
“I’m using a Mac, someone elses software and a bunch of other things… and I did something stupid and lost a document. This computer sucks! You better fix this for me!”
No, sir. The computer has nothing to do with it. Nor is it my fault if I can’t get it back for you. Man up, take some personal responsibility and admit that YOU SCREWED UP here.
Time and again, and I’ll repeat it here, I strongly recommend purchasing a flash drive and saving all important school papers to it. That way, should anything happen to your computer (crashed, dropped, stolen), you still have those papers.
I’m pretty sure this is why God made flash drives.
Flash drives die too. Both places, flash and hard drive. Never let your only copy be the flash drive.
I am not sure it is fair to say it is his own fault to not take additional precautions. He has a right to be upset if something doesn’t work the way it should work. Wouldn’t you be upset if your car breaks down for no apparent reason and it turns out to be a sensor somewhere which was faulty from factory (and you were on your way to…say…your wedding? Should you have brought along an extra car? Should you be scorned for not “bringing along another car” for your trip? For not having “cab fare”?. We expect the things we use on a daily basis to work the way they are intended - and I am sure anyone dispensing suggestions of multiple back-ups, learned this the hard way.
BTW, pen drives…not a fail-safe solution. Plenty of times I have “successfully” copies or saved a file to a pen drive or external hard drive, unplugged it, taken it elsewhere, and magically the file isn’t there.
All this having been said, in the future it would be wise to verify your backups or saves before clicking the exit button, especially on work that takes several hours and is of critical importance. Even if not for “system failures”, even a good ol’ blackout at an untimely moment, could ruin your day. (I know, there are battery backups for that). Shit happens…be prepared.
AFAIC, you are entitled to be angry and want to feed Steve’s nuts to a dog.
Running a beta version of a new operating system on hardware it wasn’t designed for is the way a Mac was “intended” to be used? :dubious:
Sure, on general principles maybe, but not for this fuck up. Its got operator error written all over it.
:: nods ::
Production environments with deadlines shouldn’t use beta software, and just before a deadline is exactly the wrong time to use an unfamiliar system to do things it wasn’t designed to do. I’m sorry.
Yea I fully acknowledge the problem was between chair and keyboard. I was just tired, cranky, and needed to vent last night.
I’ve never seen NTFS-3G fail to write on linux, but Mac is “different” so I should have planned for that possibility. For one thing NTFS-3G for uses mac-fuse to implement Linux file system drivers in OSX which I don’t have any experience with reliability wise.
Anyway I manged to free up some time and I remember the jest of my points so time to rewrite in paranoid save every 20 seconds to 5 back ups including an offsite vault in Cheyenne mountain.
It was unfamiliar system or paper, maybe paper would have been better in hindsight. It’s just paper has it’s own set of problems and I didn’t think soemthing as simple as the mac version of wordpad would be so much trouble.
Yeah, I was all excited when I found out about MacFUSE and NTFS-3G. Then I tried it, and read that it wasn’t guaranteed, and decided to copy all the contents of my NTFS drive into a new Mac drive instead of trusting it. Disappointment.
Mr Jobs recently made a fairly bogus public explanation about his health situation.
Given his weight loss and his history of pancreatic cancer, I suspect his cancer has returned. If it has, it will be a terminal event.
While this is not necessarily equivalent to having one’s testicles ripped off, it can be an unpleasant way to die (it varies) so you may, in fact, be one of those rare individuals who wishes ill upon another and actually gets to see it come to pass.
That’s a threat. Where’s Ed?