click click click click click

[stan2reason]

Those were the dreaded sounds that my hard drive made just moments before it succumbed. Death was quick.

So that was my week. I spent a great deal of it trying to piece together enough time to replace my laptop's hippocampus. The rest was spent trying to recover all the data. Fortunately I recently got an external firewire hard drive and had just performed a backup before all hell broke loose.

I have some catching up to do with the forum. Have we solved all of the worlds problems yet? :-)

[David]

Yuck.. It's funny, I just replaced a client's HDD in his laptop.. When I tried to recover the data from the dead drive, it made this horrific squealing sound that my wife heard from the other side of our home!

I feel for you.

[stan2reason]

Is that my hard drive clicking or the sound of Satan locking me into Hell? Either way I'm screwed.

:eek:

[Aspirin99]

My worst nightmare.

[psychomonkey62]

Have we solved all of the worlds problems yet? :-)

Now that you mentioned it, we HAVE been able to achieve world peace.

Everything's pretty boring now, though.

[minorwork]

Worry about a nuke Electro Magnetic Pulse or better yet one from the sun. Look at Halloween 2003 and luckily the big one right after missed us. See here for a little free read of what it might have been like. Amazon.com: The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began: Books: Stuart Clark

1859 was what the one that missed us in 2003 would have been like. Telescope images were not photographed then. They were drawn. Carrington was the first according to the above book to relate the sun to the events that year. The first chapter covers the Halloween 2003 event. The next, 1859. All they had then was telegraphs that shocked operators and repairman. The systems sparked from the increased currents in the wires.

The aurora tonight should be seen in Minneapolis. The cause at the sun is covered at this excellent site. http://www.spaceweather.com/
SOHO kicks butt. The twin STEREO's also. A lot of money going to solar satellites, I lost count at 9 when I tried to count them. ULYSSES goes over the sun's poles and may have found the first signs of electric currents extending from the poles of the sun. It's about shot though. Even Mexico has a ground based sun project going on. It just came up with evidence that electricity may have more to do with the suns power than first thought. More resolution is need.

A daring project to scoop up some of the corona is being planned.

Hard drives will be the least of worries in todays vulnerable electronic dependency when a big pulse comes. You can bet that even today, because of the flare yesterday, that airlines are losing money. They fly lower and redirect from polar routes. That costs money.

[deltagear]

Funny thing my hard drive crashed last week, luckily i had a secondary one to reinstall my os. We had a weird power outage where the power would surge every 15 seconds then flick off, then on, and off....continuing for 4 hours. My hard drive must of quit after too much stop and go of my computer continually restarting itself.