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gonzo13

First time out of the vault
I just found out that a twelve page essay that I had written a while back for a class was accidentally erased form my save space on my college computer network. I am now fucked. Goddamned bastards. I was assured that I could use this space safely and now they tell me it is no wonder because the files were old. Bullshit, I have friends with files years old and they still have them.

This was one of the three take-home essay exams for a class that I was forced to drop in the past because of some family issues. The professor invited me back, winking in confidence that he always handed out the same exam so I would not have to worry too much since I already did two of them. Fuck! Now some stupid techie fucked me because of his incompetence. They never told me files could time out, or I would have moved them to a safe location. Now I look for it to make some adjustments and to print it and its gone, and it is due tomorrow. I have about twelve hours to lose a night of sleep and do it. TWELVE FUCKING PAGES.

I want somebody's blood, and nobody is really responsible.

FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :badmood: :violent:
 
Sit back and relax, I'll have the first 8 pages for you done in about 30 minutes okay? Just lemme log off and I'll get crunking on it. If I'm taking longer than that, I'll be on at any minute so don't go anywhere or you'll miss me when I come back.
 
You did the work once. You should be able to do it again. It will take some effort, but it should be easier than the first time.

Not much else you can do about it.
 
I use to safe a copy of all my written texts on an MO-disk. And, to be sure, I always keep a printed version of them.
 
actually a wise thing to do is to email documents to yourself as a back up save. YOur email memory is usually quite big and this way you keep a record of it.
 
welsh said:
a wise thing to do is to email documents to yourself as a back up save.
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I always do this. I also always back up all my documents on my USB memory and on floppy disks, as well as saving them on both hard drives on my computer. I learned the hard way to always keep backups.
 
Never, ever ever ever trust the computer admins, Gonzo. Most of them are undergrad computer nerds who are too much into their WoW game to give a shit about people's data. But hey, at least you learned a lesson right?
 
Speak to your network administrator. Most times something is accidently deleted from a network share, it's backed up somehwhere.

And I'm sure your college makes backups.... right?
 
I do, really usefull they are.
But it is better to get one of the 500 in the first place, the 184 i got was full realy fast when schoolprojects grew bigger (90mb
pp-presentation).
And the best thing is to get one of thoose that have a mp3 player built in, regret I did not.
 
A 90mb PowerPoint presentation? I've had several professors would skin you alive if you tried something like that.

It seems to be missing the point of a PowerPoint presentation, something that is minimal, but conveys the essential information. The KISS principle in practice.

So, why did you have an ungodly large presentation, may I ask? Was it something truly essential to the presentation? I would venture that it contained a video file, but why would you need a video file?
 
Probably used sounds in WAVE format, and the pictures in 24-bit BMP, hehe.

Those USB pens are extremely useful. I used my 256MB one to carry a whole pictures presentation to an editor, in a city 120kms away. Didn't need to drag around CD's. Useful.
 
All the art students at my school walk around with straight edges sticking out of their backpacks. I can't look at one without thinking "battle axe."
 
Old-fashioned school.

We carry .357 Magnums, fo' shizzle, Bradynizzle.
 
Kotario said:
A 90mb PowerPoint presentation? I've had several professors would skin you alive if you tried something like that.
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So, why did you have an ungodly large presentation, may I ask? Was it something truly essential to the presentation? I would venture that it contained a video file, but why would you need a video file?
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No video, no sound, just plain pictures(jpeg+gif). 49 pages.
And the answer lies in the question, my teacher gave us a lousy book, and I made a pp-presentation that lastet 1 a half our.
Best punishment ever, I especialy enjoyed the part when i said the protagonist should have been hung when in her youth because of her plain stupidity that caused suffring everywhere she went.
Made a nice animation of it....
 
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