Good morning all,
I hope everyone had a great Turkey day and gained a few extra pounds
as I did, unfortunately I also fell victim to a bunch, ( I'm assuming a
bunch! ), of marauding Thanksgiving thieves as well!
My Father and I took a trip back up to the old homestead to my
sisters place for dinner Thursday afternoon, and when we returned later that
night found that our new home had been broken into and everything important
not nailed down was taken. These guys must have had a truck, but as our
house is up on top of a mountain, isolated from the road and our neighbors,
they had all the privacy needed to do the job.
Along with everything else they took, they also completely ransacked
my office, taking my computer system, all my software and installation
disks, and even backup CD-RW's of all my past and present projects! Luckily
insurance will repay me for most of the hardware, but the code I lost was
irreplaceable, and without original receipts they also won't pay for new
installations of my application installation disks, of which there were
many. In fact I didn't even realize how much I had to lose until I started
making up a list the next morning!
I've already ordered a replacement system which should be adequate I
think, and I'd like to hear from anyone who has purchased anything similar.
It's a Dell XPS 600 with a Pentium 3.00 dual-core processor,
slightly over-clocked from the factory, with 2 gigs of SDRAM, two 180 gig
high speed hard drives in a Raid 0 configuration, high speed DVD drive, high
speed CD and CD-RW drive, 800 bus, two NVIDIA GEForce ulta 256 ram graphics
cards setup via SLI, 6 cooling fans, 450 watt power supply, and a 20 in
horizontally measured Ultra-Sharp Flat, Wide-Screen monitor.
The monitor is really the only thing I'm worried about as I've never
before used a display like this. But PC computing gave this particular
monitor the highest marks out of all they recently tested, and it's high
refresh rate make's it a great gaming monitor as well they claim. I figure
if it can handle today's graphically-intensive games like Half-Life 2 and
battlefield 2 it should be more than good enough for my purposes. Has
anyone reading this have this same monitor by any chance? If so what do you
think of it?
In any case my biggest problem is now going to be replacing all the
software I've lost, and of course trying to re-write a lot of project code
that I have to keep available. From now on EVERYTHING gets copied and
placed into my bank box as soon as I've installed or written it!
But until I'm able to replace it all I'm stuck! And I'm forced to buy
Delphi 2006 right away without waiting to hear how good or bad it might be
unlike I originally intended. There would be little sense in going out and
re-buying D2005 again! And even my older disks for D4, D7, and D8 were
taken, so all I have is this notebook and a copy of the Jedi-Editor to work
with until D2006 is actually released! I may go through code withdrawal
before I'm able to get things back into order! <g>
I'm going to try and look at this situation as one of divine
guidance! And that the God's themselves are trying to tell me not to
abandon Delphi! So here's to Borland and the sincere hope that they have
their act together with this new version of Delphi...AND that there will be
something good to watch on TV until I can get things running again! <G>
from: Robert Meek at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dba "Tangentals Design" home of "PoBoy"
freeware Windows apps and utilities
located at: www.TangentalsDesign.com
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