When computers fail
Written on April 17, 2006
Being perhaps one of the more experimental computer users out there, I have experienced all kinds of computer failures throughout my computer-using career.
Recently I experienced that also Mac’s do fail. A little while ago my OS-booting hard drive suddenly cramped up with what I used to know as corrupt sectors or bad blocks (now known as invalid leaf records). Having finally understood that there is ouf course only one mantra that is of any real assistance when hard drives take a ride on the wild side and Murphy enters the building…: backup backup backup, this was indeed one of the easier ones.
One of the few positive things about computer crashes is really the unintended opportunity to learn something new. Having all important data stored on one or two external drives, the process of going through the “architecture” of Mac OSX solving problems has been quite interesting. Not only is it fascinating to see the differences in how operating systems gives users access to their computer, the “ideology” behind a OS becomes a lot clearer.
So what is the point of all this late night jibberish? As long as all backups are in place, computer crashes do offer new insights, it is not a horrifying event and it gives ample opportunity to finish reading “The world is flat” by Thomas Friedman.
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