11-11-11-11 Contest
First Place
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2 x Second Place
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The rules of the contest are simple:
- Write here (as a comment) or on another site (with link to this post) the most unusual way in which you could lose your data.
- The text must be written in English.
Contest period:
- Starts on October 27th, 2009 at 11:11 AM GMT
- Ends on November 11th, 2009 at 11:11 AM GMT
Why 11-11-11-11?
- Because the contest ends on 11/11 at 11:11.
Prizes:
- Handy Backup Professional license
- 2 x Handy Backup Standard license
Winning conditions:
- The best 3 texts win.
Winners will be announced on November 12th.
Reviews of Handy Backup:
Remarks:
- If you post as comment make sure you enter a valid e-mail address so I can contact you in case of winning.
- If you post on another site make sure there are some contact details there.
!!The contest is now closed!!
(5.00 out of 5)
Contest
Comments 7
Oct 27th, 2009
October 28th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
You can throw the hard drive on the floor :) the you’ll have a nice ditch on the platters :))
November 1st, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Nice contest. Let’s give it a try:
“It was your birthday yestarday. You had an anwesome party. A friend of yours gave you as a present a weird black and somehow “big” spoon, which has some symbols from your favorite TV Serial – Heroes – engraved on it. After a few days you just realize that the computer it isn’t working OK. You get some BSODs, some corrupted files. You try to reinstall the windows but it wouldn’t work. The same things happens every after 1-3 days since each windows reinstall. Then, you observe that everything start in the morning, after you take the breakfast. Tired of this non-sense, you speak with your best friend about your problem. Coincidentally, the friend you talk with is the same who gave you that black spoon. After some time, he recognizes that he was the source of your trouble. The spoon was hiding a small bluetooth device. Because you were a lazy person and used your notebook with the bluetooth turned on everytime, he could very easily hack and enter in your notebook eveytime you had that spoon near you. Next time be more careful.”
November 1st, 2009 at 9:29 pm
what if you are programming in a house when outside is raining so hard ? and… since you are using your laptop as everything (friend, eating table..etc.) you just want to go outside to get something to eat. so… you’re using your laptop now as an umbrella:). Just when you come back you realize your laptop is NOT an umbrella and you also lost all your data you were working. However, you backed up everything one day before on an usb stick. Lucky you :)
November 7th, 2009 at 3:18 am
Captain’s (b)log. Stardate 7112009 point 0324piem.
Me, captain Bear E. Prick-ard and the bold crew (as in they really have no hair) of the USS (ursul’s star ship) EnterPies embarked on a journey to the unknown, full of possible peril and dysintery. Our path leads to the center of the Chinezian Empire, in an effort to reclaim the lost constelation of Fohmer Domainz Nam. We know not what to expect when we get there.
Captain’s log supplemental: First officer Will-I-Am Biker said that only gays keep star (b)logs. I said he can kiss my furry ass and threw him in the brig.
Captain’s (b)log. Stardate 7112009 point 0335piem.
The crew of EnterPies just took a shore leave at the intergalactic McDrone-alds. I got myself 20 hamburgers, for about 7,99 currency. Ciordi(t) LaForj got himself a free Happy-meal. I can’t understand why. I do think however that he might have stolen it.
Captain’s (b)log. Stardate… ahhh… what the hell, it’s only been 10 minutes since the last entry.
We are back on-board the EnterPies.
Captain’s (b)log. 7 minutes later.
I’m on the royal chair. Those hamburgers went right through me.
Captain’s (b)log supplemental: Counselor Diana Groins told me that my log is not Twitter and I shouldn’t be logging everything I do. She does have a point.
Captain’s (b)log: I’ve found this really funny picture on 4444chan. Have a look. You’ll LOL!
Captain’s (b)log: The crew has restricted my acces to the main computer, aand thus to the blog to one entry ’till we get to the chinezians. I call this mutany. They call it peace and quiet.
Captain’s (b)log: We got lost. Searched Google Univers BETA for directions.
Captain’s log. Stardate 07112009 point 0356. (Man, time flies by quick when you’re in hyper-pace)
We are in the center of the Empire and we asked to see they’re leaders. The ones who took the Fohmer Domainz Nam Quadrant by force from the Bear. We await for an answer.
Captain’s log. Star… F**k, they took my watch, too!
A landing party formed of First Officer Biker, Commander Tatar, Lieutenant Borf and myself landed on the homeworld of the Chinezians, BeyJinJin’Jing. It did not go well… We got our asses kicked like there was no tommorow by a bunch of cooks. Lieutenant Borf, even barfed.
Meanwhile, the planetary defense of BeyJinJin’Jing hit the Ursu’s Space Ship with an EMMP (electro-magnetic-magnific-pulse), that erased all the data from our main computer, an Acer Laptop, and from my I-Pod 100Terra. It will take me forever to get all that pirated music back.
Now we are drifting in space aimlesly.
Man… I wish I had that Handy Backup…
November 9th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Well as I told you on IM. The thing that actually happened to me was that some actually deleted some of my files on purpose. He had a grudge against me and I still hate him from my entire heart.
November 10th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
This is an easy one, the most unusual way is the simplest way i.e a hardware failure. As an explanation to why a hardware failure and not a software failure or some other nature generated failure, software failures are the most “usual way ” to loose data, i can give you as an example my first computer that was very sensible to some programs and sometimes it just freezes and the only solution was a reboot but wait, after i rebooted surprise, NTLDR is Missing Press any key to restart and after normal OS install, no data, vanish, bye bye. Nature generated failures happen very rare but HAPPEN and when they happen you can say to your computer bye bye for good. Returning at hardware failures, the only hardware failure that causes you to loose all your data is a hard disk failure, and in 2009 for a hard disk to fail, yes even if you hit your computer with something, the chances are very low, almost 0%, so in conclusion to my demonstration above i declare hardware failures the winner.
November 12th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
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