Now... How can I say this without getting banned...
Um...
How about not trusting software like that in the future? Might
help...
That really, really sucks. There's a reason why I keep an extra
hard drive around for backups every other week. I've had horrible
luck with them suffering mechanical failures over the years.
And hell, my collection's only 145 MB so far, and that would be
horrible enough to lose...
--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "Fredrick Hauppage"
<pbskidvid_at_e...> wrote:
> A trojan horse ate my hard drive {insert B-movie scream here) Thie
> was a custom job, it clevertly decieved me to be a DSL optimizer
and
> I fell for the gag. During some idle time, it cleaned out my 125
MB e-
> mail and book marks hard drive and my 120 Gigabyte external hard
> drive- it had over 100 gigabytes of stuff on it, including some
old
> rare pics like the pre-Cease-and-Desist Klaus' artwork [he made
some
> raunchy pics of Spirit and Balto and shut down his group] as well
as
> pics from here, including the scans of the three volume
InterSpecies
> Relationships folios. I learned my lesson the hard way, buying two
> 160 Gig HDs for my fileserver/dropbox system along with a RAID
card
> to run them both [Hard drives larger than 137 Gig require a 133MHz
> RAID card, Linux, or Windows NT/2K/XP, regardless of partitioning-
I
> found that out after I tried PatitionMagic and MaxDrive]
>
> I will pay up to $7 per MB of the stuff of this group, as well
paying
> the exact same amount to Jim's cause for the files burned onto a
CD-
> rom of any quality or speed.
>
> Please email me at macrat_at_j... [macrat(at)juno.com] to discuss
> payment.
Received on Fri Aug 22 2003 - 01:58:12 CDT