Joel Uckelman on 8 Dec 2000 01:24:14 -0000 |
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Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Re: proposal recognition and stuff, and stuff. |
Quoth Jeff Schroeder: > At 07:11 PM 12/7/00, Joel wrote: > ><snip> > >The situation was made worse by the mechanical failure of the hard drive > >on my desktop machine--I didn't lose any game stuff, or really anything > >else important, fortunately, but it certainly set me back a day or so. > >Must ... finish ... work... (Avid Joel-watchers will note that that was > >the fourth hard drive I've had suffer mechanical failure since January > >1998. It's like the cloud of misfortune from Dilbert is following me > >around. Speaking of "clouds of misfortune", that sounds like a neat > >proposal idea.) > > > Damn, what kind of hard drive do you have? Western Digital? HD death count: 2 Seagate 2 Western Digigal Still going: 1 Western Digital 2 Digital (big, old, SCSI) 1 whatever is in this laptop -- J.