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November 7th, 2000 In just accordance with the trouble the forces of nature are currently causing in England, today I found water in my cd. Not in the burner, but between the two halves that make up the freshly unpacked disc. Might also have been whiskey, I am unaware of the things they do in these factories. But when I pressed down on it, it moved around to cover a bigger portion of its surface. And of course the laser couldn't read through it. But I had only just finished filling that disk with pretty important data. And so I was forced to identify the unreadable files 1 by 1, as I copied what I could save (the originals had long gone) back to the harddisk and onto a fresh cd from there. Not a problem in itself, had it not been for the fact that, every time the writer hit the droplet while reading source, thereby informing me another file had gone bust, my machine had to go into reboot. I had an alternative, which was to wait until the writer said: "cannot read file", but that took just about as long. Cost me an hour or three altogether. Moral to the story: beware, before you burn. Previous episodes:
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