Thie Cave

As I arrived at work this morning, I found my computer with an error message “ERROR LOADING OS”. That’s a very bad sign. I tried to reboot for few times with no success. After a while, it even failed to detect the IDE drives. I then removed the harddisks (there are 2 disks) from my machine to another machine. The machine still could not detect the main harddisk (with C drive) although the second one works fine. This means the first harddisk is as good as dead.

Fortunately, most of the important files are always backup regularly. A day earlier I just copied the main work into multiple DVDs. Having said that, there are some personal files that did not have recent backup. (The latest was mid September).

Who’s to blame? Quite possibly virus that managed to sneak through network and accessed my machine at night. On Sunday night, some machines including mine detected some virus files and managed to isolate them. Yet my machine lost the battle last night.

I stumbled across an interesting website counter while browsing CASE website. It is called site meter and provides good stats. Here is the website.

I already installed it and the icon now appears at the bottom right (sometimes left) corner.

I visited the engineering website of UNSW this afternoon. I made an appearance in the front page. Cooollll…..It is there as part of the news that I am one of the three recipients of IBM student paper award in ICIP 2004. (See the earlier entry ) This is my first and perhaps the only time I make an appearance there. But the thing is they use an old photo taken in my first year PhD….when I was still “blurred” with my research (^o^) Oh well…I did send a recent photo but it wasn’t used.