I’ve had an inter­esting week.

I spent the whole of the last two nights in the lab, working on a Computer Archi­tec­ture assign­ment. Normally, program­ming assign­ments don’t take long, but this one was in Verilog, that executes in different modules all at the same time. For a C or Java programmer, this is like debug­ging a highly multi-threaded program that is eagerly waiting to jump into infinite loops.

The program finally worked. Enough said about that.

I also almost lost all the data on my laptop. I tried to delete a couple of unwanted parti­tions, and strangely, my data parti­tion also disap­peared. Identi­fying the lost parti­tion using dd, fdisk and hexdump was possible, but not practical. Finally, I tried something called R-Linux that mirac­u­lously restored my parti­tion. Ironi­cally, I easily managed to recover the parti­tions that I had actually wanted to delete — and that too without any special­ized software. Oh well, every­thing is back to normal now.

And before anyone says it, I refuse to back up my data.

Tags: Cornell, Laptop

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