WHY I HATE HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPUTERS
(With an assist from Blogger.) Yesterday and today I spent just over 5 hours writing a detailed expanded discussion of the Height Limit issue, with incredible important pathbreaking insights and just as I finished the piece, finally, whatever weird combination of keys I hit on this crappy Pavilion dv5 laptop, it completely deleted the entry (and blogger's previously saved versions weren't kept either).
In the words of a song by the local band Machetres "die mother*****, die, die, die, die."
posted by Richard Layman @ 9:25 AM&Permanent Link
4 Comments:
Sounds like you should hit save or back up once in awhile. Never read a blogger with so many pc/networking issues.
Don't know if it would help with Blogger specifically, but much progress has been made on the "don't accidentally lose work" front from Apple if you're working on a Mac and additionally have Apple's Time Capsule wireless router/ network drive.
There is a new document paradigm, introduced in MacOS 10.7, that mostly does away with "Save" in the File menu, because documents (for apps that support this paradigm) are always saving *and archiving* the changes you make to an open document. Instead there is "Save a version" command, that lets one take a snapshot of a document, and then a "Revert" command that lets one browse through previous versions.
This is then coupled with "Time Machine," Apple's unobtrusive, in-the-background backup software, that's always archiving changes to documents provided it's attached to the backup drive. And the Time Capsule is a backup drive that's essentially always hooked up, because it's also your wireless router.
See, e.g., this description.
hmm, a reason to shift to the Mac...
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