Author: José Carlos
Date: 23:53:46 01/28/04
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On January 28, 2004 at 18:01:57, Jorge Pichard wrote: >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 Congratulations. That must be much better than a chess program, hehe. I hope I have the same "problem" some day (better soon than late). José C.
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