{"id":150,"date":"2008-04-30T00:05:05","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T23:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayonissen.com\/index.php?p=150"},"modified":"2008-04-30T00:05:05","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T23:05:05","slug":"crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mayonissen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/mn-1-4829.jpg\" alt=\"mn-1-4829.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mayonissen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/mn-1-4834.jpg\" alt=\"mn-1-4834.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the most in-opportune moment possible, the hard disk in my laptop decided to crash. 2 days before a deadline, and the week before various major assignments converged, it decided to give up the ghost. I had backups of most things, and I managed to get a couple of files off before it finally completely died, but nevertheless, there was a certain emotional element to my digital life dissappearing, just like that. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The process to try and resurrect it involved both pushing the cover, shocking it &#8211; bashing against the table, with increasing violence &#8211; and freezing it. No luck. The data was well and truly gone. I lost my Lightroom catalogue (ie, picks, metadata, adjustments), although thankfully not the photos themselves, as well as various smaller things.<\/p>\n<p>I still cling to the dead HD and the lost data within, even though I know I won&#8217;t get it back. Somehow, it&#8217;s in there somewhere.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mayonissen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/mn-1-4690.jpg\" alt=\"mn-1-4690.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, I now have a spacious 320gb HDD spinning inside my thinkpad, replacing the 100gig I had before. Mostly empty at the moment, of course, but that won&#8217;t last.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mayonissen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/mn-1-4831.jpg\" alt=\"mn-1-4831.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As an aside &#8211; there were a couple of QR codes (or similar 2D barcodes) on the surface of the hard disk casing. On the same component, so they weren&#8217;t there to stream parts together from different factories. Signs that they passed certain tests? quality control? different stock management systems with different codes?They intruiged me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the most in-opportune moment possible, the hard disk in my laptop decided to crash. 2 days before a deadline, and the week before various major assignments converged, it decided to give up the ghost. I had backups of most things, and I managed to get a couple of files off before it finally completely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}