haha that's a good story. glad she got it back, i know how it is to lose important work so suddenly.

I guess she pulled a Homer.

the ONLY copy was on that geek stick? thats incredibly dumb, bet she makes backups of everythign now.

Seven years? For a master's?

Oh yeah, if you don't have a cron job backing up your important work, you're an idiot. Hell I backup homework.

What a tard. I've turned in a few graduate theses in my time, and I still have them saved in triplicate and printed out.

PembrokeRiseisPeople I guess she pulled a Homer.

HAAAAHAHAHAHA

i just searched das internets for the image from the dictionary and, alas, nuttin'.

Great Caesar's Toast: Seven years? For a master's?

Hey yeah. She really is slow.

Hey yeah. She really is slow.

After RTFA, she was 43 when she finished, so she was probably a part-timer, raising kids, etc etc. Snarky comment withdrawn.

You know a lot of people go to college for seven years.
I know, they're called doctors.

Stupid people shouldn't be rewarded with master's degree. It cheapens its value.

/yeah, that's holiday spirit for me!

Great Caesar's Toast: After RTFA, she was 43 when she finished, so she was probably a part-timer, raising kids, etc etc. Snarky comment withdrawn.

Ah, all right then. If we must be nice.

That story gave me goosebumps. How you could ever keep 7 years worth of stuff on one little jumpdrive is beyond me. Glad she got it back, but damn. Way to shave about 20 years off your life.

Great Caesar's Toast:

After RTFA, she was 43 when she finished, so she was probably a part-timer, raising kids, etc etc. Snarky comment withdrawn.


This is fark...snarky comments are what bring teh funnay.

This is fark...snarky comments are what bring teh funnay.

Yeah I figured everyone would jump on my for ragging on her for trying to get an education and blah blah blah. Anyhow, she probably got a degree in gameboy, whatta loser.

My computer science professor always said "It's always easier the second time" when you complained about losing work.

Now that he's in jail for the rest of his life for molesting boys, it takes on a whole new meaning.

You want to talk about "scary"? All my PhD work -- data, analyses, writing -- was kept on *gasp* ZIP DISKS!

I still wake in the middle of the night in a cold sweat thinking about that!

Now that he's in jail for the rest of his life for molesting boys, it takes on a whole new meaning.

We have a winnah.

It doesn't take a degree to know where this is heading.

Fark.com?

Marc Rogers, Cerniglia's thesis adviser at U-Md., remembers everyone making carbon copies of their typewritten theses when he was a graduate student. People said, " 'Oh yeah, I had a backup copy. It was in my freezer in a little plastic bag because if the apartment burned down, it's still okay,' " he said.

This is not a joke, but it's not common sense. Hiding copies all over the place is paranoia, and many dissertations/theses get put in very uncommon places.

/lives with a grad student (ugh)

co-conspirator: You want to talk about "scary"? All my PhD work -- data, analyses, writing -- was kept on *gasp* ZIP DISKS!

Ack! I just got the shivers!

Tarkus: I remember the first time I lost all my pr0n, back in 1996. I was devastated. I make backups on a monthly basis now.

Been there. I feel your pain. :(

co-conspirator: I still wake in the middle of the night in a cold sweat thinking about that!

You probably have nightmares featuring the oft-heard "click of death"...

Graduate degree in 2005 and doesn't know about backing up work? Typical - get to work in the real world. Then you will learn something. LOSER!

Yaaaawwwwnnnnn...

Are the stories just getting boring????

/Should probably just shut up
//Once again...just cranky

gee, she didn't even have a paper copy? yeah, right.

Ha ha! You suck at t3h computar!

Seven years for a freakin masters?

My thesis was 350 pages of hell, 2 years of non-stop work, days and nights. I kept at least 6 backup copies. Anyone who doesn't keep at least that many backups doesn't deserve the degree.

/have at least 10 backup copies of my dissertation so far
//yeah, I'm anal retentive, what's your point?

Without pics I have a hard time feeling anything for her.

farking AWESOME

When I was studying for my undergrad in computer science I worked in the computer lab in the business school. I remember distinctly toward the end of one particular semester when the lab was packed and everyone was trying to get their thesis completed. One grad student in particular had come into the lab to print up a copy. She was printing from the A: drive when the computer blue-screened (NT 4.0 sp5 on each machine in the lab). The print job hadn't completed spooling to the printer so there was no physical copy, and the blue-screen mangled the copy on her disk. I managed to recover most of it, but the poor girl was brought to tears. She talked about how she had to graduate that semester because she had a job waiting on her, and all that jazz. I felt so bad for her. I wonder what ever happened to her?

She had been going to that school for seven and a half years. She was no dummy.

i have 4.3 gigabytes of data, some redundant
(mostly my digital camera shots) in emails i
have sent to myself on yahoo and google accounts.

/i mean their servers keep data forever right?
//i need some kind of bot to generate activity
on my emails so yahoo doesn't delete any of my
accounts for inactivity...is there such a thing?

When I was writing my thesis, I backed it up everywhere. I also had hard copies at my place, my girlfriend's place, my car, and so on. Earlier this year, an old roomate of mine told me he'd stumbled across a draft copy of it on one of his old computers.

Losing all that research and writing would be a nightmare.

/obligatory

From 6th to 9th grade I wrote a 400-page fantasy novel. Since then I've had my computer souped up. When It came back, the file was locked in 1999, only able to be opened by some ancient version of Microsoft Works or some shiat. I almost popped an artery.

FWIW, don't assume a jump drive is an infallible, incorruptible piece of media. I had to redownload an installer just yesterday that I keep on a Memorex 1Gb (formatted FAT32 because it's also a bootable Linux).

Use these to carry something from one place to another where downloading is impractical or burning a CD is wasteful. Don't put your life in a rewritable chip's hands.

I have to agree with ZeroToNowhere--when finishing up my degree, I had multiple hard copies, electronic copy on three different computers (more because I worked on the dissertation in different places at different times of day), and electronic backups on zips, a thumb drive, CDs, and a portable hard drive.

How could this stupid, stupid woman not have realized it's easier to simply save a second copy than it is to retype/rewrite the whole bloody thing from scratch?

JakeElwood "She had been going to that school for seven and a half years. She was no dummy."

You have got to be kidding...
Book smarts v.s. common sense.

I once lost an entire 100MB ZIP disk of data, not due to the infamous "Click of Death", but due to the old DOS fdisk.

I was repartitioning my hard disk, and I left the ZIP disk in the drive, which was on the same EIDE channel as the HD. Fdisk clobbered it. I had backups, though.