I'm so sorry to hear this Hot_Dog.

I hope everything works out for you in this situation!

However no offense, I do not feel as sorry as I would normally, because absolutely no recent backup of S.A.D and a few others were done, and me and many other people here have been trying hard to remind people to learn to backup their work on multiple storage mediums, especially after the calc84maniac data loss incident. As someone above said, I would have thought that people learned for that, and given you had a laptop, this automatically means flash drives that aren't under the wrath of parents could've been used to copy the most recent progress on SAD and other projects, so a data loss was not inevitable like it was with Illusiat 12, Cubes, MFQT or to a lesser extent KnightOS/Mosaic.

SAD I actually backed up quite frequently (though not recently), same with the ASM lessons.  However, I do confess, I did not back up Correlation.  But there's no need to rub it in.

Well I mean, you said SAD can't be finished because the backup is outdated, yet the project did not get updated since about half a year ago, which means that your last backup was even longer before. I'M just disappointed because on Omni I told people so many times to backup and not rely solely on groups/auto axe backup/calcutil/archive/computer hard drive, yet that stuff still happens regularly, even with veteran users. Even if your laptop did not get stolen, tomorrow the hard drive could have fried or you could have gotten a bad virus that corrupted your entire data. With projects like Cubes, this is different, because the author has no computer access at home and at school it's very easy to forget your flash drives behind computers, and his parents clears his calc memory from time to time, which is his only real source of backup for his projects.

Anyway, no hard feelings held. I am mostly mad at those stupid thieves who have no respect for other people. At least couldn't they just go try to grab stuff in a store/warehouse if they absolutely want to steal? Not that I encourage people to steal, but I mean you don't do that to other people.

ANyway, I hope you manage to find your laptop again or a solution to your project issues.

Also yeah I think you should maybe change your passwords and stuff if you often logged in to sites like here or even online stores, in case.

Quote from: JosJuice on April 29, 2011, 04:11:45 pm

Quote from: annoyingorange on April 29, 2011, 03:25:36 pm

do you have it backed up on your calculator You could send it to your computer from there

Only the executable code is stored there, not the source code...

It's often extremely difficult to recover source code from executable files

And even if you can disassemble it, you might not understand it without your comments.

Quote from: Qwerty.55 on April 29, 2011, 05:51:31 pm

Quote from: JosJuice on April 29, 2011, 04:11:45 pm

Quote from: annoyingorange on April 29, 2011, 03:25:36 pm

do you have it backed up on your calculator You could send it to your computer from there

Only the executable code is stored there, not the source code...

It's often extremely difficult to recover source code from executable files

And even if you can disassemble it, you might not understand it without your comments.

That's pretty much what I meant, along with the labels, modularization of code, the fact that some assemblers like to insert new things that weren't in the source, rearrange code, etc...

Man, that really sucks. Sorry to hear, Hot_Dog. Hope you can get it back somehow.

Quote from: Ashbad on April 29, 2011, 02:50:26 pm

I only hope you're okay after this, as I'm sure this was a horrible blow to your emotions, I personally would have gone beserk over this

Actually, the thing I'm really mad / emotional about is that I wasn't thinking...I just set that laptop next to my suitcase, and I walked off with the suitcase but not the laptop!

I once lost my calculator by doing almost exactly that, if that makes you feel any better

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um... oh dear. that's a bit disappointing. then again, i probably shouldn't be complaining because it was your projects (and machine) that were stolen. good luck on finding a replacement computer.