Earlier in the day I was, well, kind of bragging about about how reliable my
hard drives have been over the years.

This evening, while compiling a program, one of my hard drives....you guessed
it, became a paperweight.

ken

No_One wrote:

> Earlier in the day I was, well, kind of bragging about about how reliable
> my hard drives have been over the years.
>
> This evening, while compiling a program, one of my hard drives....you
> guessed it, became a paperweight.
>
> ken

So the moral of the story is to not brag about your hard drives unless you
know they aren't going break down the next day?

On 2005-09-22, No_One <no_one@no_where.com> espoused the following:
> Earlier in the day I was, well, kind of bragging about about how reliable my
> hard drives have been over the years.
>
> This evening, while compiling a program, one of my hard drives....you guessed
> it, became a paperweight.
>

You didn't remember to knock on wood when you bragged, did you?

Scott Cole

--
Only trust pipesmoking penguins.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 05:23:14 +0000, No_One wrote:

> This evening, while compiling a program, one of my hard drives....you guessed
> it, became a paperweight.

You didn't twirl a dead chicken (or at least a rubber one) around your
head while typing "make", did you? Tsk, tsk...

--
If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much space.
Linux Registered User #327951

No_One (no_one@no_where.com) writes:
> Earlier in the day I was, well, kind of bragging about about how reliable my
> hard drives have been over the years.
>
> This evening, while compiling a program, one of my hard drives....you guessed
> it, became a paperweight.
>
> ken
>
Clearly you didn't take the time to open the hard drive, and write a message
to those hard drive gods, so the drive would act as a prayer wheel when it
was on, and keep the wrath of the HD gods at bay.

(No, I'm not seriously suggesting anyone open a working hard drive, but
I did once write a message on a floppy drive to this effect.)

Michael

On 2005-09-22, Dan C <youmustbejoking@invalid.lan> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 05:23:14 +0000, No_One wrote:
>
>> This evening, while compiling a program, one of my hard drives....you guessed
>> it, became a paperweight.
>
> You didn't twirl a dead chicken (or at least a rubber one) around your
> head while typing "make", did you? Tsk, tsk...
>

Wait minute, you mean the chicken is suppose to be dead??!! Well, that
explains the problem.

ken

No_One wrote:

>
> This evening, while compiling a program, one of my hard drives....you
> guessed it, became a paperweight.
>
You could build a harddrive clock, if you need something to do in those
cold dark winter evenings:
<URL: http://www.srkconsulting.com/hddmake/hddmake.phtml>
--
Thomas O.

This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 05:23:14 +0000, No_One wrote:

> Earlier in the day I was, well, kind of bragging about about how reliable my
> hard drives have been over the years.

Yeah ya need to kind of watch that stuff.



> This evening, while compiling a program, one of my hard drives....you guessed
> it, became a paperweight.
>
> ken

You Know... i used to do the chikken stuff every time i 'make'
something...
also did the open Hard disc to workship the gods...

but braggin about Hard Disc is always punished by some evil power
beyond human knowledge...

I used to have scsi discs and used to brag about their reliability,
performance and speed... till i had to pay $2000 to recover sensitive
data..

Never ever brag about anything related to computers... not even your
code!!!

good luck...

Miguel De Anda wrote:

> So the moral of the story is to not brag about your hard drives unless you
> know they aren't going break down the next day?
I would have said:

Don't brag unless you rsync to at least two off-site machines
on a regular basis