Please Backup !

[James Ladd]

Ok, im a fool.
I was just about the post my first tutorial in a line of tutorials on Win32 Socket development with masm when, slip of the finger and B A M!!!
I deleted when I should have copied. The result is I lost my work.

No I did not do a backup.

Should I be taken out and flogged, yes surely I should.

PLEASE BACKUP YOUR WORK.   DO IT NOW !!!

[pbrennick]

striker,
How come it did not go to your Recycle Bin?
Paul

[hutch--]

James,

We should probably take you out and shoot you with an infinite supply of Pascal Marshmallows just so its slow and painful.  :P I hope you can remember all this stuff as a socket library is important and many wil find it very useful.

[Statix Star]

SHIFT+DELETE

Good idea after I lost all my data from my recent PC. Hutch is not really funny I was developing many things and download many
important things but it's now all lost. It was not a hack, the system got corrupted after installing some new softwares and
a virus entered. I didn't turn my pc correctly and it took long a black screen appear, so because it wasn't going to respond.
I simply reinstalled it using F12 with the Xp home Edition. With the Xp Pro requires your password.

[hutch--]

Char,

Youi are preaching to the faithful here, I lost a SCSI back in 1999 with no warning that took out all the soure code for MASM32, code generators and a mountain of other work.

These days I have multple boxes to back up across, writable CD and DVD drives to make sure it does not happen again.

Still, I think being shot with an endless supply of marshmallows is a fitting punishment for someone who lost a complete socket library when so many people will find it useful.  :P

[Statix Star]

I understand. The thing is that we learn from our mistakes. I had a friend from 64 living in Texas, I think he's the martian one
with the Binary and Hexadecimal values. He coded in pure binary numbers, assembly from all processors except the flat-modes, pascal,
c/c++ I think. Now he plays a game like a kid, hehe, I had retire from that game. I think he will someday just he loves that game.
I like it too, somehow I noted that I was wasting my time consuming playing daily hours. My friend will code in 32 and 64 mode.
I guess so, and will make a documentation seems he's pretty good in that and he's wise. I was thinking in developing one for Masm32
but I will release it in PDF, seems the HTML it's not famous for using it in the C:\> Root. Even Microsoft doesn't support it the only
thing I seem from Microsoft is the tips. I don't know if HTML was use for making documentations seems you make one, you have to
choose the wisest instructions for optimize. I don't know if Randall use optimize codes, because there are 4 versions of HTML.
What do you guys recommend for doc? HTML it's famous for it's site but I don't see so much as a doc.

[James Ladd]

The replies are interesting.
I have learnt my lesson and have backed up the code. etc.
I didnt loose a lot as I have backups, just not as regular as I should.
I do them every 2 weeks but it seems that once a week is more important.
Ill also install CVS so that I can get the copy out of version control if needed.

Hutch - I can almost remember the socket tutorial word for word as its in the early stage and
just deals with the goals and design for the project and not a great deal more. Very easy to
re-create. The christmas break will be good too as I can spend most of today on it :)
Watch this space for the url etc.