Re: recovering data from a crashed ext3 hard disk

From: Jean-David Beyer (jdbeyer_at_exit109.com)
Date: 09/17/05 

Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:14:18 -0400

shakiro wrote:
> Why do you take it so personal?
> If people are warned about the possibility of losing their data, what
> would you care anymore?
> It happened to me, without a backup, and still I lived happily after...
>
> If your data is important to you, you make a backup.
> If somebody else´s data is not important to himself, what should you
> care? If they ask in here how to recover data from a hard disk that
> crashed and they don't have a backup, they obviously didn't care either.
>
> No reason to get yourself anxious about it, stop being empathetically
> involved with those people's small problems and relax :)
>
You are being logical, and after a while you will find that logic does not
apply to people.

Data are not important enough to people for them to make backups. But when
they lose it, they expect someone else to get it back for them, preferably
for free.

With an issue like this, would you not think it would be on the FAQ list by
now. In fact, _it is in the FAQs on this very newsgroup_, _reposted weekly_.

But our helpless mental cripples seem unable to read a newsgroup for a week
before posting (as suggested in one of those Internet for dummies type
books), incapable of reading a FAQ list, incapable or doing a Google search
in a newsgroup before posting... .

Yet we who try to answer questions are expected to answer the same questions
again and again every damned week.

No wonder our country and its economy are falling apart. 

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