Arisen from the dead

It appeared as though my computer didn’t die (completely) after all.

You can never know with Windows running on a PC! And you learn something new every day.Today’s lesson: Always expect the unexpected.

Or rather: Don’t rely on computers. Sooner or later they’re all doomed to die. Just like ourselves. My old French teacher once said, “Life is a disease that no one survives”. Pretty depressing… However, this is true for computers as well. Maybe you can put it like, “Windows is a disease, no computer survives”

…but I guess, “Cia is a user that no computer survives”, is more likely the case.

Sometimes I actually wonder whose fault it is.

What do you think is most likely?

a) The user is stupid
b) The computer is stupid
c) They’re both smart, but something happened on the way…

And another question:

How come violence can revive a PC? I mean, you would never hit a Macintosh, but beating on a PC just makes it work even better?! -It sure is a mystery.

…and finally my computer died

Never forget to do backups.

Never.

I just found out that my dear computer has taken its last breath. All my music, pictures, work, received files… gone. I know, I’ve been told before to do backups, but I never seemed to care. Well, actually, I didn’t care. I was more like: never store your life in a computer! But hey, that was obviously what I was doing; piling up my life story in a computer. And now, my life is gone. (Not entirely, but it certainly feels a bit empty).

My old computer had so many viruses that the anti-virus program stopped working. I couldn’t download new software, since it lacked Service Pack 2. It didn’t react to any external devices. Not even to my red memory stick. Pop-ups were jumping up my screen even though I hadn’t opened the browser. And it was always this woman in carnival clothes who told me I could win money without even touching my wallet. Tempting, huh?

I decided to do something about it. Disk defragging! But my disk defrag refused to cooperate. What the…?!

After weeks of ignoring my computer; I tried to start it. But to my surprise, it was as dead as a zombie. Sort of half-dead, with the fan sounding really angry and the screen just pitch black. Bloody hell.

Suddenly all the people who constantly have been telling me to do backups: YOU WERE RIGHT. (But please admit: you knew this would happen!)

To all the people out there… DO BACKUPS!!