h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

 Yes, I've suffered a great systems crash, down here on the farm- and I blame windows 98! It just can't handle all the hoops I put it through. The only reason I run 9X at all is because my SCANNER won't work with NT!

I actually like NT. It's relatively stable, and handles all the stuff I throw at it rather well, and when a program DOES crash, it rarely brings down the entire system (unlike windows 9x, which will crash at the drop of a hat). It's not as stable as linux or solaris (which I also run), but for my multimedia stuff, it can't be beat- at the nonce.

I'm currently getting my system put back together (software-wise, that is) and will probably be a week doing it. What irks me is the fact that I lost a lot of original work (a song I'd been working on for a week, samples I'd made, etc.). This sucks.

I blame IOMEGA for this! I have one of their crappy zip drives which developed the "click of death" a mere few months after I bought it! I have one of their crappy jaz drives which did the same (though IOMEGA swears that they don't get the "click of death"- the fact remains that this one DID! I certainly didn't do anything to the silly piece of crap!). IOMEGA SUCKS! Next time, I buy a superdisk!

So, IOMEGA has screwed me for several hundreds of dollars- and refuses to honor it's warranty, giving me the run-around every time I called their tech-support/returns office. The bastards!

I HATE IOMEGA!

I had a ditto drive.
Then no tapes in shops.
Thanks Guys.