Taz: Recovering Slowly *
Posted on 28 May 2008 by Taz
It has been a totally unbelievable week what with the site going down and having to be rebuilt from scratch. Then came a major computer crash yesterday morning (or was it the day before) requiring the formatting of my hard drive (and recovering all the lost information). It was a huge mess.
This morning I finally had a bit of good fortune. Everything was working like a charm and I was just getting on a roll when I heard a loud bang nearby and the lights went out…for well over an hour.
I went and did some yard work and when I returned and booted up again I found the same problem I had been wrestling with all day yesterday.
A short time ago I created a new profile for myself in order to overcome my difficulties and henceforth Jack shall be known as “Taz”. That is, of course, unless I get hit by a bolt of lightening.
The way things are going that might very well happen.
“Working”…
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May 28th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
It seems Murphy would apply better than “Taz.” As in “Murphy’s law.”
My computer is crawling. Takes around seven minutes to start the internet. In my mailbox is an e-mail “Support services” and message you may have a virus and here’s a free scan.
Also, I get continual message at bottom, “cannot find server.”
What’s this about the article stating YouTube is going to be a problem in the future. If they take away YouTube access, communications among peoples are jeopardized.
Everybody take care of your blood pressures. Don’t you dare get hit with a “bolt of lightning” Jack. It would be messy. hahhaha.
May 28th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Taz, Jack or whatever, we will all still be here for you when things are going well, and thinking of you when they are not.
Several bloggers have had trouble lately, is there a mean hacker out there that is trying to silence the truth from getting out.
May 28th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Sounds like an interrupted I/O to me. I had a power failure recently that caused some damage somewhere on the filesystem on my C:\ drive. These Windows operating systems are quite weak when it comes to problem determination. Purchased a UPS on Sunday and installed it to support docking station and critical web server.
I think a SHA256 signature should be taken of every critical file and preserved somewhere, so that in the event of some spurious damage, at least there is some of hope of finding the damaged system file.
I have had the boot record zeroed on a power failure - which says that between the operating system and the hardware, there is opportunity for random disk I/O to clobber files as the ‘event’ reverberates. Imagine the effect of writing zeros into a random sector of a hard drive on a WinXP NTFS filesystem, and you have the behavior that drives men into their gardens…
Happy hunting, and good luck with it Jack. If you don’t have one… once you have a clean system, put a UPS on it…