Life of a crash test dummy
I cried today. - Well, at least I shed a tear, upon realising that:
a) my laptop, my one and only computer, on which I store everything, had crashed. Black screen, no connection whatsoever to the cd-rom drive. No chance of back-ups.
b) the hotline for the computer compagny couldnt help me, when I finally got through to them.
c) the local systemadministration couldnt help me either because fidgeting with the harddisk to save my data would mean I lost my warranty and would have to pay for likely expensive repair myself.
d) that I hadnt backupped my files for more than one week because of a corrupt network profile which I never got around to deal with last week, because I was on my way to Sweden.
e) I probably wont be able to afford travelling to any conferences anytime soon because Im in between jobs and as soon as I am in job I cant get any external funding so time spent preparing conference paper(s) might be wasted.
f) Im coming down with a flu when I really need to be awake and alert...

On the upside, I should mention though, that I handed in the laptop in a store nearby and that they told me that since it is produced in Denmark and the repair service is really quick, I should have it in back in maximum a week, if they dont need to get spare gadgets...However, it says on my warranty license that the repair service reserve the rights to erase all software and install the original software, which was Windows XP home edition. This most likely means that chances are big they will erase all data and I will have to reinstall Windows XP Pro with all new drivers etc in order to be able to connect to the ITU network and print from it....etc etc ad infinitum.

It's the third computer to crash on me in three years. But clearly, this is the worst possible timing.
Im taking a break...
# posted by Lisbeth at: 18:51