Byte-Splosion!
Sometimes all the tech flames out at once.
Came in this morning planning on getting a bunch of stuff done on the Halloween site that GS is doing. The store is called "O'Lantern, Longshadow and McCobb, Ltd." and the design is one of the best that Christine ever came up with.
Which means it's going to be a stone bastard to code, but it's good to push your boundaries sometimes.
Yesterday, I got little done on it because of another client emergency (solved) so today was going to be all about it. Or not, because when I arrived this morning, bright eyed and eager like a freshman college student steeped in naivete, Jason's computer had suffered an internal apocalypse and would either not start, or freeze after five minutes of use. Through various arcane arts, I figured out it is probably the hard drive going bugshit. So I went about getting the backups ready to throw onto an external drive to boot from.
Except the external backups drives didn't seem to work. I hooked them to MasterSwitch (our server) and they just didn't showed up. Meaning all of my Boss's files were gone, and I couldn't recover his work from the backups I'm responsible for.
PANICPANICPANICPANIC.
After I got that out of the way, I shut down the Jason's computer, checked my mail and waited for inspiration. I also waited for his computer to cool down because sometimes hard drives will give you a little more life if they're allowed to cool down. And they did. So I hooked a couple of spare firewire drives up and set the computer to feverishly dittoing (a special kind of copy) from the dying hard drive to the externals.
And to show that tech is sensitive to moods, as soon as I calmed down, both of the backup drives started working again. Since I don't need them to rescue the data right now, I'm just thankful that they are there, waiting in case Jason's mac burns down before the ditto is finished. Jason is currently beavering away on a spare Mac mini with his saved emails and an emergency setup that should have him going until we can get his data off of the old computer and set up on one of the better spares.
Came in this morning planning on getting a bunch of stuff done on the Halloween site that GS is doing. The store is called "O'Lantern, Longshadow and McCobb, Ltd." and the design is one of the best that Christine ever came up with.
Which means it's going to be a stone bastard to code, but it's good to push your boundaries sometimes.
Yesterday, I got little done on it because of another client emergency (solved) so today was going to be all about it. Or not, because when I arrived this morning, bright eyed and eager like a freshman college student steeped in naivete, Jason's computer had suffered an internal apocalypse and would either not start, or freeze after five minutes of use. Through various arcane arts, I figured out it is probably the hard drive going bugshit. So I went about getting the backups ready to throw onto an external drive to boot from.
Except the external backups drives didn't seem to work. I hooked them to MasterSwitch (our server) and they just didn't showed up. Meaning all of my Boss's files were gone, and I couldn't recover his work from the backups I'm responsible for.
PANICPANICPANICPANIC.
After I got that out of the way, I shut down the Jason's computer, checked my mail and waited for inspiration. I also waited for his computer to cool down because sometimes hard drives will give you a little more life if they're allowed to cool down. And they did. So I hooked a couple of spare firewire drives up and set the computer to feverishly dittoing (a special kind of copy) from the dying hard drive to the externals.
And to show that tech is sensitive to moods, as soon as I calmed down, both of the backup drives started working again. Since I don't need them to rescue the data right now, I'm just thankful that they are there, waiting in case Jason's mac burns down before the ditto is finished. Jason is currently beavering away on a spare Mac mini with his saved emails and an emergency setup that should have him going until we can get his data off of the old computer and set up on one of the better spares.