Programming Note #19

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Programming Note #19

Thu 23 Feb 2012 by abagond

My computer died. It might be a day or so before I post again. I am posting this from my iPhone, which is hard to blog from.

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22 Responses

on Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 06:02:22 dave

That sucks man. Same thing happened to me. Apparently there was something wrong with the electric meter outside, and the lights kept flickering on and off. I know surge protectors are supposed to cover that, but mine didn’t. I bought a new computer, but alot of my business clients and other info is on the old one. Someone told me all I have to do is take the old hard drive out, put it in the new one , then put what I want on an external drive, then switch them back again. Sounds like alot of work though. I might just pay someone to do it.
on Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 06:17:26 dave

Not only that I don’t know if that will mess the new computer up. Putting an old hard drive in it. I think best buy might do it for me. Hopefully the electrical surge didn’t mess more than the power system up and they will be able to pull info from the old hard drive.
on Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 13:19:29 Peanut

my computer is starting to die too i might have to ship it out for repairs. omg everything is crazy right now
on Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 15:27:08 Nom De Plume

I don’t know if there is any correlation, but over the past couple of days I was getting attack warnings from my anti-viral software whenever I visited this site and a few others. I had some nasty things removed and changed some settings. I am no longer having a problem. (Knock on wood).
on Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 15:33:35 abagond

Uh-oh. Has anyone else been having a problem like that? (Can the people at the back of the room hear me?)
on Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 15:43:12 truthbetold

Yes, I also got the same warnings.
I thought it was just me.

You know…my paranoia tells me that because this is an anti-racist blog, Big Brother is saying, ” No, no folks…we can’t have that!.”
on Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 15:44:22 Nom De Plume

@truthbetold:

That was my first thought, too.
on Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 16:00:20 truthbetold

@ Nom de plume

Thanks. It’s nice to know I’m not (terribly) insane.
on Fri 24 Feb 2012 at 01:30:24 Doug1

Sorry to hear Ababond.

That really sucks. Condolences.

It’s only happened to me once. Well it’s happened three times but only once with the hard drive. Which is the real bitch because it take SOOOO much work to reinstall all your programs, you almost never have all the passwords for all the stuff you’ve paid for and installed (though I’m pretty organized about that, but not all), and it even takes forever to just get the look and feel as you’d tuned it previously. And most humans with less than perfect data backup plans (or with none at all) lose tons of that too.

The other two times I was on Dell complete care, the hard drive was ok, and they just swapped out the mother board the next day on one occasion, and the laptop screen on the other. So that was easy peasy. Perk.
on Fri 24 Feb 2012 at 01:34:31 Peanut

i didn’t get any virus warning, but some other sites black sites have been having issues…I would back up this site in case abagond.
on Fri 24 Feb 2012 at 02:58:44 Herneith

Perhaps you should get offline browser software and download your site in order to save it in the event of your computer crashing. There are also many modes of backing up your computer, and or, the files. Gmail documents are excellent for this and it is free. You can upload individual files and documents and arrange them in ‘collections’, colour coded and all. You can upload folders, but only with Google chrome. Hotmail also has ‘Azure’. I think they give you 25 GBs of free space. You can purchase more space if you want to.
There is also the back-up programs. If you have to reinstall your OS, and you are using Windows 7, it usually keeps the old files;Windows.old if you are using an upgrade. Also an ad blocker of sorts is quite useful:

http://www.admuncher.com/

This blocks ads which oftentimes contains tracker cookies or malware and viruses. This nice little app prevents these thing from popping up and also speeds up browsing as these ‘ads’ loading slows down the browser. If you are using Firefox, IE Explorer or Chrome you should clear your history and cookies regularly. Also go to ‘search’ and type in disk clean-up. This will estimate the amount of space taken up by temp files, windows warnings etc. If you go to advanced, you can also delete restore points which are created every time you install, uninstall, or clean your registry.
on Fri 24 Feb 2012 at 04:01:30 Matari

@ Abagond

You’re a software programmer, correct?
on Fri 24 Feb 2012 at 04:47:32 Matari

FWIW, your website is inaccessible (http://www.blocked-website.com) via “conventional” methods. It’s coming up as a blocked domain. Your site certification may have some (sudden and mysterious) issues.

I’m reminded of those old familiar memes (obviously still in use) that were utilized to keep “uppity” Negroes from getting too big for their britches and “knowing” their place in the order of THINGS.

Looks like you’re upsetting someone’s idea of their (perceived) natural order.
This means that you’re doing your task EXCEPTIONALLY WELL.

Don’t stop.
on Fri 24 Feb 2012 at 11:18:50 Matari

Or…

The issues I’m seeing could be coming from my ISP …
on Fri 24 Feb 2012 at 14:29:54 Nom De Plume

I just logged on and immediately got two virus attack warnings. The attacks were thwarted. The same thing has happened on a couple of other black web sites. I’m inclined to believe something is up.
on Fri 24 Feb 2012 at 14:36:26 Nom De Plume

I don’t think this is an ISP issue.
on Fri 24 Feb 2012 at 14:37:26 truthbetold

Big Brother hard at work.
on Fri 24 Feb 2012 at 18:07:15 SomeGuy

What exactly is the message saying Nom De Plume?
on Fri 24 Feb 2012 at 18:17:03 Nom De Plume

SomeGuy,

Something along the lines of, “A recent attack on your computer has been detected. Please click *here* for details” – or something like that. The messages are alerts from my anti-virus software.
on Fri 24 Feb 2012 at 22:05:07 SomeGuy

@ Nom De Plume

I mean, what is the name of the type of attack? The virus?
on Sat 25 Feb 2012 at 00:15:23 AliKat

My Imac is phenomenal!
on Sat 25 Feb 2012 at 00:15:32 Nom De Plume

I went back and looked at the history. It normally names the attacks but the last few weren’t named.