• secretlife said on Jul 17, 2009....

  sorry beyond that you lost your post.  this has happened to me more than once!  in fact one time i flatly refused to believe what i'd written was gone forever and when i realized it was, i took an entire week away from soulcast out of anger!
   
  i think computers have come a long long long way in the past 10 years in terms of simplifying things.  Computer programs tho?  well, there's lots of "bugs" in some of those-  and programs like SoulCast that have to interface with multiple browsers is just very difficult to make work perfectly. 
   

• CayenneMan said on Jul 17, 2009....

      I know how you feel, I'm sorry you're post took off into the shadows. I believe that at one time or another we have all experienced that horrifying reality and no matter how hard we try we just can't bring back what is lost.
    I think one of the biggest problems with computers today is the ability to displace heat in the hot spots inside the box. If you could keep you're computer at a reasonable operating temperature it would probably run problem free and last a lot longer. The manufacturers could install  efficient cooling fans and add more vents but then the computer would last longer and eventually they would feel it in they're pocket. I know I'm probably wrong but that's my two cents on the issue :o).
      Did you know that a lot of pilots consider a safe landing to be nothing more then a controlled crash ?  Isn't that a comforting thought ?

• MissMimi said on Jul 17, 2009....

  Beyond, I agree with you completely.  It's amazing to me that the internet stays up and running given the fact that computers self-destruct so often.  mrM works with computers all day, in the IT department of a large hospital.  He'll get called to fix some problem or other, and I think, well, good.  Now that particular problem will never happen again.  After all if you correct the software, presumably it keeps it from happening again.  Totally wrong.  It happens over and over.  It'd make me want to take a baseball bat to the motherboard. 

• beyondtheveil said on Jul 17, 2009....

  secret- That post was important to me. Although it would be just reading for others, it was about what has happened to my wife and the life altering options we will be taking to address the matter. And it was simply thrown into the trash like bad food. I should be able to write these things without worry. Evidently it's asking entirely too much.
  
  cayenne- There is no doubt that they manufacture an early death into most things we buy. When my parents were first married and buying appliances, it was almost like a once in a lifetime purchase. They removed their first refrigerator after thirty years because of remodeling the kitchen. I gave their fifty-two year old deep freeze to a family to start another life when my mother died. But computers are an entirely different story. When we get a new computer, I'm hoping it will work properly for fifty-two days.
  

• beyondtheveil said on Jul 17, 2009....

  mimi- Software is another thing. I've never even heard of a company that paid the sinful price for software that worked properly for the company. I worked for a company for twenty-seven years that couldn't get software that worked for them. The two big companies my wife worked for, same thing. In fact they are fighting a new software now. It really makes me wonder if software companies have software that works worth a shit. 

• moonriver said on Jul 17, 2009....

  beyond, my friend.
  airplanes crash. 
  that's why they have emergency landing procedures.
  cars figure in accidents. 
  that's why they have seatbelts and airbags.
  soulcast, like secret said, eats posts.
  that's why we must save our obras maestras into some file, even print them out, just for good measure.
  but i feel your pain, my friend... :-)
  
  

• queenparanoia said on Jul 17, 2009....

  oh i know what you mean when you write something important and then this kind of shit happens.. that's why i copy my post first beofre posting it.... can you write it again??? well if inspiration strikes you...

• travelr712 said on Jul 17, 2009....

  in the last 4 weeks, there have been 4 jet crashes that have killed over 500 people. when a computer crashes, nobody dies. it sucks when you loose something you worked so hard on, but think of all the different things a computer has to do, and people still want them to be cheap, and soulcast is free, i don't think you'd get very good service on a jet if it was free, do you?

• beyondtheveil said on Jul 17, 2009....

  moon- Airplanes are the safest mode of travel and auto accidents are caused by idiots putting on make-up, texting at seventy miles per hour, and a high blood alcohol. But regardless of that, I must admit to a deep seated dislike for computers from the very beginning. It all started when they put them in the stores I shop at. Shopping was a good experience and efficient before computers. I have said good things about them, but it comes kicking and screaming inside to say the words.
  
  queenie- How do you copy it? The post can't possibly print out with a small part of it showing, can it?
  

• Hegemone said on Jul 17, 2009....

  Beyond, that does suck that you lost your post, but maybe instead of saving it, why don't you just select all (Cntrl A), and then copy(Cntrl C)?  That way you're not technically saving it, you're just holding on to it in case of error.  I do that all the time, that way I don't have to clog up my computer with every single blog I've ever written, but I don't have to go through the agony of losing it.  So instead of a test fly, you'd just be saving a blue print so you can create another if the first one crashes and burns.

• beyondtheveil said on Jul 17, 2009....

  trav- As I said to moon, a lot of this comes from a long dislike over time, even though I do receive much pleasure from them in certain cases. Computers have been forced on us in virtually every aspect of our lives and in the future could control it. Considering this, they should work. Software should work for its purpose. The net should work.
  
  And if you want to talk about killing, nothing has the potential for killing like computers. Just wait and see how computers handle WW III. We can destroy the world with them, but I can't rely on a post appearing.
  

• queenparanoia said on Jul 17, 2009....

  ctrl A to copy all and the ctrl c to copy. paste it notepad or word... :-)

• gingersoul said on Jul 17, 2009....

  BeyBey...oh, i am sure your post was a beautiful one...i miss it even whitout  having read it...:-)
   
  Suggestion: write on Word, copy and paste on SC. Also, save your stuff in a folder and copy on a cd for better protection..
   
  My relationship with computers is a troubled one as well.... but i love them... couldn't even phantom my life without my computer....;-p.
   
   

• beyondtheveil said on Jul 17, 2009....

  hege- OK. I'll ask my wife how to do that. I'm going to have to admit defeat and learn more about computers since they are like whiny little children. 

• eurekame said on Jul 17, 2009....

  I know what you mean...and it steals comments (or half of them?) too! urghghghg!!!

• beyondtheveil said on Jul 17, 2009....

  ginsoul- I couldn't recapture the post as written. We had just finished a long conversation and the emotions were there. Sometime later, maybe. I've been told to put them on word, whatever the hell that is. What pisses me off is that I'm going to have to learn anyway. With a three thousand dollar computer set up and a world wide web, why should I have to? Thar's my point. And a good one, I think.
  
  eureka- The lost comments used to be worse, believe it or not.
  
  queenie- I'll find the easiest way from my wife, much as I hate to.
  

• wombat said on Jul 17, 2009....

  Sorry you lost a heartfelt post to the SC gremlins.  That personally hasn't happened to me yet.  What I lose are comments when I take too long.  Then I have to start over and forget what I said to whom.

  (Queen: )Thanks for the tip!  I hadn't thought of using notepad!  I did copy a post to word once, to hold it while looking for something to add.  I didn't know how to keep it in draft and be sure it would be there when I got back.

  I am always in too much of a hurry to save posts and then come back. But I like the way you think.  They can test run anything they want to, just don't let me be the one to test run a bungee cord!  Ha.

• superbozo said on Jul 17, 2009....

  Ahhhhh the mysteries of disappearing text. I often wonder where it all ends up. I'm sure I've read somewhere that knowledge is never lost. I wonder if sometime in the near future we're gonna find a part of the universe where millions of lost stories and emails reside just waiting to be found.

• gingersoul said on Jul 17, 2009....

  BeyBey.....go to Start, open Microsoft Word, open a new document, write the post, save it in a new folder, copy and paste it on SC.
  
  If i do it, you can do it....lol...
  
  I see your point but its no use get pissed off at these moody babies....you have to learn how to use them...and even though its not guarantee they will not crash on you at the less expected and desired moment....
  
  C'est la virtualle vie....;-)
  

• beyondtheveil said on Jul 18, 2009....

  wombat-  It's never happened to you? I've lost more posts than comments in the last year.
  
  super- Now there's a helpful thought - my post is swimming around in the far reaches of the universe. Maybe someone there will like it.
  
  soulgirl- I called my wife yesterday and she said the same as you. She's going to go over it with me today. I'll have paper and pen because I have to write that shit down.
  

• queenparanoia said on Jul 18, 2009....

  wombat: youre welcome... :-)

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