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Subject: Re: A horrible Virus deleted my hardrive and my little Blitzer program OUCH

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 15:01:57 01/28/04

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On January 28, 2004 at 17:18:06, José Carlos wrote:

>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.


Thanks José, later on I might restart all over again, but for now my hands are
tied with a new baby girl.

Jorge



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