Author: José Carlos
Date: 14:18:06 01/28/04
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On January 28, 2004 at 16:45:25, Jorge Pichard wrote: >Sorry to tell you the bad news, but when I returned from Bismarck ND, I found my >computer with a virus that deleted my entire hardrive. I left my nephew checking >my cats, and he downloaded music and according to Osvil(My nephew) my computer >suddenly became blue and stopped working. When I came back my nephew Osvil gave >me the bad news, and I had to delete my entire hardrive to get rid off the virus >and I reformatted the hardrive and installed Windows XP again, but my Bliztzer >program which I never made a copy on a CD or Disk was deleted from the hardrive. >I am still installing some of my programs that I still have the CDs into my >system. I should have told my nephew not to mess around with my computer while I >was gone, but at this point it is too late. > >PS: Anyway Blitzer needed a lot of debugging and I was in the process of >implementing a better pawn evaluation and King safety, but now I don't feel like >starting all over from scratch again. > >Jorge I don't know if this will make you feel better but I've restarted Averno from scratch three times, and then wrote Anubis also from scratch. Each new rewrite means a better design from a better understanding and, in my case, a big jump in strength. But you have learned a lesson most of us has also learned somehow: make backup copies often. Good luck. José C.
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