Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)
I'm sorry to hear that this happened to you. I've been there, many years back but what I lost was in the hands of the operating system, not in the hands of a thief. I was 3 days away from submitting my project when I had been putting in lots of code changes in the past 2 days. A thought popped into my head that I should save the source so that I had a copy of the latest changes, which were the result of an extensive development session. It was at that precise moment that the mini computer system (bad old days of multi user terminals) decided to choke on its virtual memory system and ALL my code was scrambled randomly just as it was being saved to the disk. WHAM! not only was my code messed up, so was my drive copy. My only back up was a print out that was 2 days old. After throwing some chairs around in the terminal room (while in tears), I went back to my old source and rewrote everything with a vengeance, from memory and improved on it at the same time. In retrospect, perhaps I should have done that more often in some of my projects - throw the code away and rewrite it again - this would have worked better. I'm sure once you get over the emotional upheaval, you'll bounce right back and what you create this time around will be even better. Jesse ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)
We're often the worst at heeding our own advice, until it really happens. I hope you get some semblance of normality back. So much more than just code is stored on our boxes (photos, letters, emails, etc) that it more often than not is a more personal loss. Cheers, Luis. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)
Dear friends, to all of you who responded on and off list. THANK YOU! I really apperciate it. I am not yet in a condition where I can reply to email, but the situation will not bring me down for long. I will be taking a couple of days off. Going seasides next Friday. Too many things to pt into place before. Then I will start with a recharged battery and maybe this is a chance to make it even better than in the first try. I am glad to be part of a community that cares. Thanks to all of you. All the best, Malte ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)
More hugs and sympathy from the UK, once you're reading emails again. Having had data loss problems in the past (not through theft, more through my own stupidity) I'm in the middle of sorting out three sets of HDs - the ones with the working files, a second set which get updated every day or two from the working drives, and a third set a few miles away at my parents, which get swapped with the second set every week. The swapping with drives on another site isn't quite set up properly yet, so at the moment I'm still vulnerable to theft/floods/burning houses etc. :-( Best of luck, and have a great time at the seaside! Ian On 10 Oct 2008, at 13:19, Malte Brill wrote: Dear friends, to all of you who responded on and off list. THANK YOU! I really apperciate it. I am not yet in a condition where I can reply to email, but the situation will not bring me down for long. I will be taking a couple of days off. Going seasides next Friday. Too many things to pt into place before. Then I will start with a recharged battery and maybe this is a chance to make it even better than in the first try. I am glad to be part of a community that cares. Thanks to all of you. All the best, Malte ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)
Malte, what a horrible thng to happen. Without going into boring details, I had a roughly similar thing happen to a music project about 7 years ago. All I can really say is that once you've got over the shock, you'll do what everyone does after such a loss - start again and rebuild. And, as one wise friend said in response to my anger at the thieves, be glad you're you and not them. Best wishes, Mark On 9 Oct 2008, at 10:51, Malte Brill wrote: Hi all, today is the worst day in my self employment life. I arrived at the office today, just to learn that everything apple branded is gone. Stolen. Away. Not only that, but my external backup HD also vanished and a few things I was pretty fond of, like a keyboard (music) and a microphone. I do not care too much about the machines. Those are replacable. But I lost at least 3 months worth of data. I had something cool coming up, but I am afraid I am thrown back to point zero, at least with the documentation. The people I have been talking off list will know what I mean. So everyone who is involved with that project, I beg your patience, as I really need to start freshly on it. And just now I can't. I just feel like sitting in the corner and weeping. So if any of you has any urgent support queries for AE or other stuff I beg your patience. It might be a day or two until I recover. All the best, Malte ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)
Dear Malte, Le 9 oct. 08 à 11:51, Malte Brill a écrit : today is the worst day in my self employment life I'm very sad for you. It's a violation and I hope you don't you don't feel too desperate. So let's focus on possible solutions: The really secure one is to 'delocalize' and have a backup on the web: MobileMe or another similar service. Best regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet. Plugins and tutorials for Revolution: http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)
Also my sincere regrets. I have done this to myself by formatting the wrong drive that had my source repository by mistake and not having a backup. I still have the executable on my website but I cannot support/enhance it because its gone. I always read in programming books that you almost always need to solve the programming once before you really know how to solve it so maybe revision 2 will be a better effort than the original (although thats laughing thru the tears). My godsend solution is Sugarsync. They give you 10 gb of free storage and their client runs in the background on both windows and os x machines (I use both in both laptop and desktop scenarios). It allows you to create a magic briefcase on your computer that is automatically synced with all computers as well as access other directories directly from their website. I upgraded to the 30gb plan which is very reasonable and more than covers my project directories. It also provides some version control capabilities but nothing like SVN/CVS/Git which I find more trouble than worth at my location. Again my deepest sympathies and know tomorrow will be a better day! Neal -- Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software Programming Services for Windows, OS X and Linux (540) 242 0911 - Try Spot for OS X, the intelligent DXCluster Client at www.abrohamnealsoftware.com - $15.99 - For a great dog book, visit www.abrohamneal.com - See the FlexRadio Systems Flex-5000a in action at www.flex-videos.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)
Malte, What a horrible thing! I thought this happened only here in Brazil. There's not much I can say, similar thing happened once to me and someone said to me: now you can do it even better. The felling of loss and frustration at lost labor is terrible. If there's anything I can do to help, just email me. We know you'll get thru this! And also AE rocks! Andre On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:51 AM, Malte Brill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, today is the worst day in my self employment life. I arrived at the office today, just to learn that everything apple branded is gone. Stolen. Away. Not only that, but my external backup HD also vanished and a few things I was pretty fond of, like a keyboard (music) and a microphone. I do not care too much about the machines. Those are replacable. But I lost at least 3 months worth of data. I had something cool coming up, but I am afraid I am thrown back to point zero, at least with the documentation. The people I have been talking off list will know what I mean. So everyone who is involved with that project, I beg your patience, as I really need to start freshly on it. And just now I can't. I just feel like sitting in the corner and weeping. So if any of you has any urgent support queries for AE or other stuff I beg your patience. It might be a day or two until I recover. All the best, Malte ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)
Malte, I can totally relate to this. And all I can tell you is It sucks! That said, time will pass and the feeling of being violated will start to go away. I feel for what you are going through. I found for me that using the readjustment time to reorganize my life and since I was 'starting over' to make things better than they had been before. Before some of the things I had were put together piece meal as time went on but this time around instead I planned it all out and optimized my entire system and work flow and practices. Also, it's time to look at Time Machine/Airport in a locked box or hidden in a closet for your most important asset which is your backups. Having my most recent work backed up in a safe place gives me a great piece of mind. Then also once a month consider an offsite backup as well. DVDs are good for this since the offsite stuff is not really meant for long term solutions but rather as a backup to the backup. Anyway, Know that we all have you back and if you need anything at all let us know. Your list friend, Tom McGrath III On Oct 9, 2008, at 5:51 AM, Malte Brill wrote: Hi all, today is the worst day in my self employment life. I arrived at the office today, just to learn that everything apple branded is gone. Stolen. Away. Not only that, but my external backup HD also vanished and a few things I was pretty fond of, like a keyboard (music) and a microphone. I do not care too much about the machines. Those are replacable. But I lost at least 3 months worth of data. I had something cool coming up, but I am afraid I am thrown back to point zero, at least with the documentation. The people I have been talking off list will know what I mean. So everyone who is involved with that project, I beg your patience, as I really need to start freshly on it. And just now I can't. I just feel like sitting in the corner and weeping. So if any of you has any urgent support queries for AE or other stuff I beg your patience. It might be a day or two until I recover. All the best, Malte ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)
What a horrible thing! I thought this happened only here in Brazil. There's not much I can say, similar thing happened once to me and someone said to me: now you can do it even better. The felling of loss and frustration at lost labor is terrible. If there's anything I can do to help, just email me. I second that, Malte... and I'm sure there are others too who are wanting to help in any way possible. Just let us know! I'm only glad that you only lost 3 months of data and not more than that (although I know that 3 months of development is a lot to redo). And thanks, Neal, for the tip about SugarSync... I've been thinking about offsite/online backup, and it looks like a good option. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)
Hi Malte, Sorry to hear about the criminal activity. The world is going through some hard changes so we all need to be careful and your message is a good warning to those who haven't experienced the dark side of humanity yet. If I told you what has been happening to me you would understand things can be worse. Don't give up and remember how quickly things can change for the better no matter how bad things are going. I am encouraged with your projects and hope to see them soon. -=JB=- On Oct 9, 2008, at 2:51 AM, Malte Brill wrote: Hi all, today is the worst day in my self employment life. I arrived at the office today, just to learn that everything apple branded is gone. Stolen. Away. Not only that, but my external backup HD also vanished and a few things I was pretty fond of, like a keyboard (music) and a microphone. I do not care too much about the machines. Those are replacable. But I lost at least 3 months worth of data. I had something cool coming up, but I am afraid I am thrown back to point zero, at least with the documentation. The people I have been talking off list will know what I mean. So everyone who is involved with that project, I beg your patience, as I really need to start freshly on it. And just now I can't. I just feel like sitting in the corner and weeping. So if any of you has any urgent support queries for AE or other stuff I beg your patience. It might be a day or two until I recover. All the best, Malte ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)
Damn! I wish you all the best Malte. Indeed, I hope people will bear with you and be patient. Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Get your store on-line within minutes with Salery Web Store software. Download at http://www.salery.biz Op 9-okt-2008, om 11:51 heeft Malte Brill het volgende geschreven: Hi all, today is the worst day in my self employment life. I arrived at the office today, just to learn that everything apple branded is gone. Stolen. Away. Not only that, but my external backup HD also vanished and a few things I was pretty fond of, like a keyboard (music) and a microphone. I do not care too much about the machines. Those are replacable. But I lost at least 3 months worth of data. I had something cool coming up, but I am afraid I am thrown back to point zero, at least with the documentation. The people I have been talking off list will know what I mean. So everyone who is involved with that project, I beg your patience, as I really need to start freshly on it. And just now I can't. I just feel like sitting in the corner and weeping. So if any of you has any urgent support queries for AE or other stuff I beg your patience. It might be a day or two until I recover. All the best, Malte ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)
Hey Malte, Here's a hug from San Francisco.. Very sorry for your machine and data loss. I live in fear of such a scenario.. I am so paranoid about losing stuff.. 1) work from home, and I'm always here (hermit?) 2) Time machine is always running, 2nd 500g drive in the G5 3) Bootable backups of main machine using Foldersynchronizer every week -- my projects are completely contained in a MacOSX .app package, 'splash screen' --and I work on the stacks in situ ; in place. 4) I use Touch every day on the .app package 5) Project .app package with all scripts and resources uploaded to local server every day 6) I have a handler in my development sandbox that tars, then zips the .app package, then uploads to a directory at dreamhost. I call this every day. Still, with all of this, I've had panic moments, losing a stack I worked on all day that didn't have it's own file, somehow got detached and lost in space (substacks... not anymore). I looked everywhere for quite a while until I found a stack that I had forgotten I had saved. sqb Hi all, today is the worst day in my self employment life. I arrived at the office today, just to learn that everything apple branded is gone. Stolen. Away. Malte -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - - ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)
Malte: Very sorry to hear about your loss. I am sure you are disheartened, but the Revolution community needs your stuff, so please continue. Perhaps get away from work and take a couple of days to recover. Just a couple of thoughts: maybe you gave some of your development work to a friend or colleague to review/test? If so, you might be able to retrieve some small portion of your of work there. Also, I've seen several stories about tracking down stolen machines through their access of the Internet -- somehow discovering the address. Perhaps there is some option there for you. Finally, following the backup suggestions from several other developers, there is Jungle Disk (jungledisk.com). For all platforms, this service uses Amazon S3 for amazingly cheap storage: a US$20 one time cost for the desktop software, and beginning Nov 1 storage costs of US$0.15 (15 cents) per TB (yes, terrabyte). You also pay a few cents for transfer costs, but the amount is also minimal. I have many GBs stored there and pay one dollar a month (EU pricing is comparable). Again, best wishes to you. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)
Hi Malte, Perhaps a good cry helps-- and as Scott recommends-- a couple days off. You're such a super guy and have helped many here in the past. I'm glad to help in anyway possible. My thoughts are with you. best, Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)
Malte Brill wrote: Hi all, today is the worst day in my self employment life. I arrived at the office today, just to learn that everything apple branded is gone. Stolen. Away. Malte, I'm so sorry. I know exactly how you must feel. Your heart just sinks, it is horrible. I think all of us can empathize, this is our worst nightmare. Big, big hug. For what it is worth, I've posted a tiny little utility that I use all the time. It isn't polished or beautiful, it's just a simple little tool that I have been using for years. I suspect most of us have something like this, but for anyone who wants to grab a copy, it's here: http://www.hyperactivesw.com/downloads/ftp_upload.rev.zip This is a very basic little stack that just uploads the current topstack to my FTP backup directory. It also contains a button that lets you choose any other file on disk instead for upload. Before uploading, it gzips the file, adds a date stamp to the name, and then sends it. You will need to change the first line of the card script to point to the location of your online ftp backup directory. Since the script does include your ftp password in the URL, I password-protect my copy of the stack to prevent anyone seeing the full URL. It wouldn't be hard to change the utility to ask for the password on each access; I've always been too lazy to type it in each time so I leave it stored in the script. I have a backscript with a handler like this: on bup go stack path/to/FTP_Upload.rev end bup When I am working on a stack, I just type bup into the message box periodically and this little utility appears with my current stack already loaded into the file to back up field. I just hit the upload button and away it goes. Each upload is gzipped and date-stamped on the server. It currently does not include the time in the stamp, so each upload on the same day overwrites the previous one. That's all I need generally but you could change the script. I keep other copies locally, but this way the most current version is always on the remote server. Anyone who wants this, go ahead. It isn't pretty or sophisticated, and I'm sure others have fancier utilites than this one, but it's a start for anyone who wants it. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)
Hey Malte, Very sorry to hear what happened, I agree with the thank goodness you am not like them sentiment that Mark expressed. I have had a similar experience. One effect of starting over is that ALL the thinking and refinement you have done to date is where you start from, not from the place you started from last time. For me (when this happened a few years ago) I think the second round product was a lot cleaner than the first round. But in the meantime there is that horrible feeling in the pit of your stomach, yes? Let me know directly if you need anything. Regards (and a little awkward hug) John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Malte Brill Sent: Thursday, 9 October 2008 8:52 PM To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two) Hi all, today is the worst day in my self employment life. I arrived at the office today, just to learn that everything apple branded is gone. Stolen. Away. Not only that, but my external backup HD also vanished and a few things I was pretty fond of, like a keyboard (music) and a microphone. I do not care too much about the machines. Those are replacable. But I lost at least 3 months worth of data. I had something cool coming up, but I am afraid I am thrown back to point zero, at least with the documentation. The people I have been talking off list will know what I mean. So everyone who is involved with that project, I beg your patience, as I really need to start freshly on it. And just now I can't. I just feel like sitting in the corner and weeping. So if any of you has any urgent support queries for AE or other stuff I beg your patience. It might be a day or two until I recover. All the best, Malte ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)
Malte, I'm so sorry to hear about this! Big hugs from SoCal! Judy On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Malte Brill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, today is the worst day in my self employment life. I arrived at the office today, just to learn that everything apple branded is gone. Stolen. Away. Not only that, but my external backup HD also vanished and a few things I was pretty fond of, like a keyboard (music) and a microphone. I do not care too much about the machines. Those are replacable. But I lost at least 3 months worth of data. I had something cool coming up, but I am afraid I am thrown back to point zero, at least with the documentation. The people I have been talking off list will know what I mean. So everyone who is involved with that project, I beg your patience, as I really need to start freshly on it. And just now I can't. I just feel like sitting in the corner and weeping. So if any of you has any urgent support queries for AE or other stuff I beg your patience. It might be a day or two until I recover. All the best, Malte ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
