Ha! Maybe this was meant to happen so you could have an understanding of sorts and start all over. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 7:58 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] STFC sad news.
> Hi, > I've had some bad days, and i'm not a programmer, but any way you cut > it > nuking 80%+ of your code is a major downer. I've lost data in hard disk > crashes, but that was hardware, i think this in a way would be worse. If > you've got cash i'd recommend a USB thumb drive for all your computers, > they're relatively cheap these days and going down fast in price. They're > also reliable as heck, i accidentally put one through a wash and a dry and > i > am happy to say that after i got over almost having a heart attack it was > the cleanest but still totally operable USB thumb drive. If and maybe a > supplement to a USB thumb drive, would be a version control system for > source code, subversion, and i think if your using the ms .net suite of > compilation tools they have a plugin for svn, that way you could branch > off > a development branch from your main branch. > You have my sympathies. > Dave. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gary Whittington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:48 PM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] STFC sad news. > > >> Have your computer schedule to backup for you. >> >> Crash >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 4:48 PM >> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] STFC sad news. >> >> >>> Hi Jim, >>> Yeah, I always save early and save often, but unfortunately I am bad >>> about backing up my data on a regular basis. This lesson should remind >>> me the price to pay for failing to backup often. >>> >>> >>> Jim Kitchen wrote: >>>> Hi Thomas, >>>> >>>> I know that this won't make you feel any better, but I did the same >>>> thing >>>> like 25 years ago when working on the first version of Star Mule. I >>>> had >>>> drawn a beautiful picture of the Star Ship Enterprise. It had running >>>> lights, blinking lights etc. I then accidently saved the code of the >>>> game with the name of the picture file. Had no back up, so the picture >>>> was gone. It had taken me a very long time to draw it so nice with the >>>> graphics way back then. Losing it made me so upset that I never did >>>> redraw the thing. The only thing that I did do was to learn to save >>>> often, early and make back ups. >>>> >>>> I am very sorry to hear that you lost all of that very hard work. >>>> >>>> BFN >>>> >>>> Jim >>>> >>>> Out of my mind. Back in five minutes. >>>> >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> http://www.kitchensinc.net >>>> (440) 286-6920 >>>> Chardon Ohio USA >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] >>>> To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can >>>> visit >>>> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make >>>> any subscription changes via the web. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can >>> visit >>> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make >>> any subscription changes via the web. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can >> visit >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make >> any subscription changes via the web. > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
