My oh my...
It started Sat, and as you know, our Car Air is out. WELL, the house air went out that night too. NICE HUH! Well, Donna has a Uncle that fixes them, and came out on Sunday, and checked it out, it was just a compasator (sp) THANK GOD! A simple piece that costs $15. I was extremely down Sat night though.. the forum was screwed, the car air, the HOME air, and feeling crappy! I did feel better when we found out it was a cheap part!
, I was guessing it was the Compressor, Condenser, A-Coils, or a leak in the Lines...
It started on Fri Sat around 6pm. A BAD T-Storm was over us, and the lights 'dimmed'. usually, when the power does that, the air kicks off for a protection type thing, well, around 8pm, I was hot kinda, and pushed the dial down, and I didn't hear the fan come on.. I gulped.. I went outside PRAYING it was needing a re-start or something.. I got outside to look at the AC box, and the Pipe was iced over an inch thick!! So, I was sick by then, thinking the worst, and headed up into the attic, to look at the Air Handler.. ICE again.. So I cut them off till the guy came and fixed it. GOD, what a scare
So Everything is cool till Monday. I am messsing around with the new version of this forum, about to install a new hack (Who's online for UBB v6.05f), and used a program that installs it into the code (Neat program), so I wanted to use my "00" Directory where I keep all my Artwork, and Tons of textures.. I ran the program, and went to go look at the dir to see if it worked.
The ENTIRE dir was empty except for the UBB files. This program CLEARS the dir before it runs the files... I nearly cried. (Serious man), I had MONTHS of Artwork I have been working on, and textures I had been collecting for years now, so I crossed my fingers, booted to DOS, and tried ole' Unerase.
Worked. Mostly.
It recovered all of my textures, and Art! (A few textures were garbled) but I don't care.. It was about 15,000 files I had to Undelete/Unerase, and it took nearly 3 DAYS of full processing to recover them all. Mainly because of how many files were in dirs.. I took 20 seconds PER file at the beginning, then sped up the closer it got to the end.
Holy CRAP! So I Burned CD's out my butt today!
, That's why I haven't been here since then.
Talk about a scare... Oh man. I love Norton, and I'm SO glad I know DOS so well.. (Grew up on it)
. I tried to 'speed-up' the undel process by adding mode con rate=30 delay=1 (cursor speed), EMM386, and Speed Disk to 20MB!
It helped a tad.
Anyway, I'm back now, and NOW I'm gonna go yell at the Server Ops and see why they have yet to fix my counter, damnit!
How was YOUR day?? hehe..
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Ziroc
Ironworks Webmaster
www.tgeweb.com/ironworks