Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-17 Thread Luis
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. __

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-17 Thread Jesse Sng
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 popp

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-10 Thread Ian Wood
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 o

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-10 Thread Malte Brill
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 i

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Judy Perry
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.

RE: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread John Tregea
d 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

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
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

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Chipp Walters
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

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Scott Rossi
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

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Stephen Barncard
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

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread -= JB =-
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 understa

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Ken Ray
> 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, j

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Andre Garzia
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, jus

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Neal Campbell
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

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Eric Chatonet
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

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Thomas McGrath III
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 'starti

AW: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
t; Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:use-revolution- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Malte Brill > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 9. Oktober 2008 11:52 > An: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Betreff: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two) > > Hi all, > > today is the w

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Mark Smith
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 o

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Mark Schonewille
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Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Malte Brill
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