September 29, 2004 10:19 PM

Never hit your computer!

I'm an friendly and peaceful person. The only time i can remember to have a real fight was in basic primary school, because some guy said something bad to another guy, which i think he shouldn't have said.
Anyway.
Even though i normaly don't get physical, i hate it, if things are not how they are supposed to be.
So when my fucking trackpad (of my otherwise, lovely iBook) didn't work again, i bang my fist on it, and the iBook went silent. So far so good, because i wanted to go to bed anyway.
The next day when i powered up again, everything seemed fine, until i noticed that some of my menu bar items didn't launch.
Hmm. So some fiddling ...
Oh there are probably some user privileges damaged, so repair them .......... (i have a big harddisk) ...... failure.
OK. Perhaps it helps if i run a system upgrade again -> OS X 10.3.5 ......
no .......
Perhaps if i install the whole system again.
Oh, but i have only the 10.2 CD's from my girlfriends iBook at hand so that doesn't work.
Ahhh, i have a (old) backup on my external harddrive.
But i want to backup the now non functioning system, because i want to keep my configurations.
I occupy my girlfriends laptop to copy the files to another drive.
That takes the rest of the day.
The next day i start to reinstall from my backup with CCC.... after a few hours a popup from Sophos Antivirus tells me that i have a windows-virus in one of my .doc-Files.
That was not interesting, because i knew it :-) but i realized then why the backup took so long.
Every copied file was virus-scanned! After i switched checking of it took only about 2 hours.
Yeah, how fast!

Then again it was time for bed.
So today i could finally reinstall all new software that wasn't on my old backup and i am now able to write these few lines.
Did you count?
Two days work for one bang with my fist.....
lesson learned: Never hit your computer!

Posted by Florian Beyerlein | Categories: Malmö
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