Well, there went the morning...
Feb. 2nd, 2008 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperance'Member what I was saying, 'bout how complicated my mornings had become, in terms of remembering everything I needed to take with me: laptop, documents, coffee, datakey, 'cetera?
Well, this morning I thought the only thing I'd forgotten was the chocolate biscuit. Which was an occasion for disgruntlement with self, but nothing worse.
Until I powered everything up in the Silence Room, thrust in the datakey, went to retrieve yesterday evening's work - and found that what I had was yesterday morning's work. Which meant that either I had forgotten to upload yesterday evening's onto the datakey, or I had magnificently wiped it by copying the relevant file from the datakey onto the desktop instead of t'other way around.
Aurgh...!
Okay. No panic yet. I had a fallback position: last thing I do every night, I send a copy of the day's work to my g-mail account. Drop out of Linux and reboot, because I can't make the wifi work in Linux. Boot up Windows - and bugger, the wifi won't work in Windows either. Whether that's because the Lit & Phil's network is down, or whether it's the LHP being somehow less than perfect [nooooooo...!], I don't know. My experience with the Lit & Phil's wifi has been very flaky - sometimes I can hook up to it no trouble, sometimes I can't at all, sometimes it comes and goes - but I have no other experience to compare that with, so I really don't know what's what.
But anyway, nothing to do but scowl monumentally and come home. Other people would have shrugged and carried on from wherever it was they'd got to last night, and hope to plug the gap with a recovered file later, but I was too entirely disarranged. I hate hate hate losing work.
So I came home, and of course all is well, I still have last night's version of the file safe and sound, I had just forgotten to copy it over; but that was the morning, and I didn't like it much.
Well, this morning I thought the only thing I'd forgotten was the chocolate biscuit. Which was an occasion for disgruntlement with self, but nothing worse.
Until I powered everything up in the Silence Room, thrust in the datakey, went to retrieve yesterday evening's work - and found that what I had was yesterday morning's work. Which meant that either I had forgotten to upload yesterday evening's onto the datakey, or I had magnificently wiped it by copying the relevant file from the datakey onto the desktop instead of t'other way around.
Aurgh...!
Okay. No panic yet. I had a fallback position: last thing I do every night, I send a copy of the day's work to my g-mail account. Drop out of Linux and reboot, because I can't make the wifi work in Linux. Boot up Windows - and bugger, the wifi won't work in Windows either. Whether that's because the Lit & Phil's network is down, or whether it's the LHP being somehow less than perfect [nooooooo...!], I don't know. My experience with the Lit & Phil's wifi has been very flaky - sometimes I can hook up to it no trouble, sometimes I can't at all, sometimes it comes and goes - but I have no other experience to compare that with, so I really don't know what's what.
But anyway, nothing to do but scowl monumentally and come home. Other people would have shrugged and carried on from wherever it was they'd got to last night, and hope to plug the gap with a recovered file later, but I was too entirely disarranged. I hate hate hate losing work.
So I came home, and of course all is well, I still have last night's version of the file safe and sound, I had just forgotten to copy it over; but that was the morning, and I didn't like it much.
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Date: 2008-02-02 08:01 pm (UTC)Is there a room in Lit&Phil where old men are not slagging off Gordon Brown all morning???
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Date: 2008-02-03 01:13 pm (UTC)Come and join us! We are a curious crew, we who lurk in the underworld, but at least we are quiet.
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Date: 2008-02-03 02:15 pm (UTC)