I knew it was going to happen. I thought about backing up many times. It's not like I don't have the space --a couple "deck of cards" USB hard drives, other machines and a terabyte of server space. But no, I didn't simply throw my "picaxe" folder anywhere but on my lappy.
And then came the virus. Something hit my computer like I have never seen before... I could not go online as I got a "this site is unsafe" warnings the warning pages themselves prevented me from going any further. I could not run any anti-virus/spywhere software as I got a warning there too that prevented opening them. Everything merged to a constant "would you like to purchase anti-virus software now?" pop-ups. When I clicked yes, I was brought to one of the most poorly disguised, fake-AVG, phishing expedition I have ever seen. Really, it should have just said "We just stole your computer --we are not going to give it back but give us your credit card information anyway. --I swear, it asked for bank account numbers "for varification" in additon to the credit card. --As you can guess, Paypal was not accepted.
Long story short, total hard drive wipe. Reformat disc. I lost it all. Now, mind you the really important stuff is backed up, i.e. music etc. but I did loose every line of code I have ever written in both picaxe and processing and in terms of Walter, I have grown very accustomed to cutting and pasting MUCH more that writing anything new. Alas.
Now, for the punchline. WHO'S MAKIN' FUN OF MY HARD COPIES NOW, SUCKA?!?! Oh yeah, I am going to be a data-entry guy for a while but man, at least I still have it.
This post was mostly for rik.