They're gone.

[icarus]

Feeling rather low right now. Oh, yeah, I got my computer back today. But all my recent SG-1 stories were vaporized.

The disk-write error wrote right over them.

Goodbye BlackOps!Jack.

Goodbye SGC Party story.

Thank goodness I had emailed lizardspots an early look at some other stories. That's the only reason I have them.

I'll see if I can reassemble the party story from Y!M clips I sent to sharp_tongue and goseaward. If my Y!M account isn't vaporized. But the BlackOps!Jack is a dead loss. I'm gonna have to recreate that from scratch.

We need to create an "I hate Windows" theme song. I'm thinking perhaps something to the tune of the "The Guns Of Brixton" by the Clash.



ETA: All our links are gone, too.

Shit. Shit. Shit.

Comments

[guest-age.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. I wish I could fix it for you! :-) If it's any consolation, I'll get right on that "I Hate Windows" theme song. *attempts to console*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I need that theme song. Or perhaps a nasty package of the exploding variety mailed to Microsoft.

I'm ready to run Linux.

Icarus

[guest-age.livejournal.com]

I was listening to a CD last night and started writing lyrics for "I Hate Windows", but for some reason, I can't remember what it was...I know that the first few lines went something like, "We all hate Bill Gates/That stupid idiot, he just can't wait/Til he has a product that actually works/We all think he's a idiotic jerk" Or something like that...damn, wish I could remember it...*sighs*

[mad_maudlin]

Oh, Icarus. ::cuddles:: You're really in the valley lately, aren't you? I wish I could do something to help.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh, the rest of life is going great. I love WG. I love my kitty. My classes are going well. I love tutoring. It's just the same ongoing computer shit. *sighs* Which I'm reminded of every time I have to go to the library to check email.

But the computer's back. It's just not... well.

Icarus

*cusses over vanished stories.*

[moonprincessnat.livejournal.com]

Goodbye BlackOps!Jack.

Eep! I'm so sorry to hear that. :-( I would love to read BlackOps Jack. You need something like iDisk to send copies of your stories to so that they are safely off site of your file eating computer. Hey, as a one of those rabid Mac users, I'm all for a "I Hate Windows" theme song. ;-)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Hey, as a one of those rabid Mac users, I'm all for a "I Hate Windows" theme song. ;-)

I tell you, I never had this kind of trouble with my Mac. Any suggestions? Perhaps the Sex Pistols or Limp Bizket have something angry enough.

Icarus

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

Aw, man, that sucks. I hate that.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

All the links are gone, too.

Crap.


Icarus

[cheshyre]

Oh, ouch ouch ouch

You have my deepest sympathies. Hugs if you want 'em.

I can't find an MP3 of it, but Davinci's Notebook (an acapella group) wrote/perform a song called "The Gates" about somebody who tries to kill Bill Gates after one computer crash too many.

I will say that at times when I have lost writings, rewritten them from memory, and then found the originals, the originals were never as good as I remembered, and the rewrites better than I thought.

And, whenever you're in the mood for reading, a fanfic dedicated to you.

Anti-windows filk

[cheshyre]

None seem to hit quite the right note, but I found a few lyrics to some other tunes that might work in the interim:

Windows '95 (to the tune of "9 to 5")

Windows On My Mind (to the tune of "Windmills of my mind")

Fifty ways to Crash your Windows

Windowsian Crapsody

Windows Dies (to the tune of "When doves cry")

Re: Anti-windows filk

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

This is priceless.

Original song Fifty ways to Leave your Lover
Original artist Paul Simon
Filk author Bill Hudson
Intro

Fifty ways to Crash your Windows
"The problem is all inside your box", she said to me
"The answer is easy if you take it logically
I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free
There must be ...
fifty ways to crash your windows."
She said "It's really not my habit to intrude
Furthermore I hope these packets won't be lost or misconstrued
So while you boot again, at the risk of being blue'd
There must be ...
fifty ways to crash your windows ...
fifty ways to crash your windows."
Install a new pack Jack, tap on the can, Stan
Its just a lil' toy, Roy, just listen to me
Use a PCI Bus, Gus, don't need to touch much
Start PGP, Lee, the blue screen you will see!

She said "I see you've got BSOD again
I think if you stopped crashing you'd feel a lot less pain."
I said, "I appreciate that, and can you please explain
how to stop the crashing?"

She said, "Why don't we just install Linux tonight
And I believe that the penguin can soon set things aright."
And then I shut down and I realized she probably was right
There must be ...
fifty ways to crash your windows ...
fifty ways to crash your windows.

Just flip out the stack, Jack, ping it to death, Beth,
Adjust the screen, Gene, just take it from me.
Try'n see what you ran, Dan, or access the 'Raid', babe,
Look for new mail, Dale, its easy to see.



Thank you. I'm ready to install Linux, let me tell you.

Icarus

[sffan.livejournal.com]

Fuck.

*bighug*

I'm so sorry.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Thank you. *Swears in unison.*

Fuck.

[destina.livejournal.com]

Oh, no! That's horrible. I'm sorry. It does pay to send drafts to friends, tho, doesn't it?

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

It sure does. lizardspots was able to reconstruct the first half of a fic from chat comments, and I'm hoping to reach a second friend for the rest of it.

But I'd just completed the first chapter of the BlackOps!Jack story, so. I'm wearing black armbands today and a veil of mourning for the lost fics. And somehow, just can't get it up to do more writing at the moment. *sighs*

Icarus

[leni-jess.livejournal.com]

Devastating to lose all that work; so sorry to hear about it. (Meet an angry cat who shares your feelings.)

[tafkarfanfic.livejournal.com]

Oh, hon. Same thing happened to my Other Half recently, and he lost his novel.

Awww man...

[dustandroses.livejournal.com]

...that truly sucks. I'm so sorry to hear it. Well, I'll just wait patiently for some BlackOps!Jack. Take your time. Sigh...

:::hugs:::

[absurdwords.livejournal.com]

Computer trouble sucks. Here, some silly windows jokes to ease the pain:

One OS to rule them all (http://annmariabell.com/alternate/blog/one_os.html)

Windows Real Good - an online version of Windows (http://www.lagmonster.org/humor/windowsrg.html)