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I suspect I just lost an approximate 30 hours worth of work. I decided to play around with the CodeProject API, and of course did that on my dev VM (which runs on my iMac - no comments on that. Please.) - I was updating it (the VM that is, not the iMac) to use Ubuntu 14.xx, and all of the sudden the whole HOST OS hung up, crashed to leave the VM in unusuable state. Yes, uploading everything to an SCM was on the todo list 
Update: I'm now setting up a second VM, praying to be able to mount the old virtual hdd and rescue the data.
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modified 25-Oct-14 12:39pm.
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You can (of course) restore from your last hourly backup, I assume? 
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Eeeermmm... No
I did not use the mac for any important stuff before I started using it as dev VM host, so there is no backup at all.
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Do you want to borrow one of mine? 
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Marco Bertschi wrote: I did not use the mac for any important stuff
Words to live by.
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Marco Bertschi wrote: I decided to play around with the CodeProject API,
Good luck, I'd be interested to see what you're up to. I haven't fussed with the API yet myself.
Marc
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Hey Mark,
I uploaded the code here[^] (Yes, just managed to rescue it  ).
Anyhow, you will need Qt 5.2.1[^], if you want to compile it.
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Marco Bertschi wrote: Yes, just managed to rescue it
Yay!
And thanks for link. Also, one of my "on the shelf" projects for a client is getting Qt to work on a BeagleBone, it seems like a daunting task, so I'll be working with Qt some as well soon.
Marc
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Marco Bertschi wrote: I was updating it (the VM that is, not the iMac)
Well, there's your problem. You were updating the wrong thing. Code Project is a Microsoft site. We hate Apple.
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Marco Bertschi wrote: and of course did that on my dev VM (which runs on my iMac - no comments on that. Please.)
buuuttt.
Try googling to see if there is a fix. You might get lucky if the files are still there, maybe try to bring it up in a different VM like Virtualbox. good luck
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Thanks Joe, I managed to get the files back by booting a live linux on the broken machine, which then mounted the file system fine- Seems like just the boot sector was broken.
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Awesome. I have ran into 'scary' moments like that myself with some VMs I have used in the past. The last time was just a matter of updating Virtualbox and it fixed the boot issue I had.
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If the gears in that animation are anything to go by, no wonder I doubt it'll ever work.
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I noticed that, and figured that the white one is behind the orange one and not intended to mesh.
Either that or Bob has Mystic Powers. Which, of course, he does: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."Clarke, Arthur C., "Profiles of The Future"
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It is a perfect illustration of the gearbox from a 1972 British Leyland product - the black background is the spectacular oil leak.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: the spectacular oil leak
Oh, yes, I see that now. The current in the oil caused by one gear turns the other, I'd forgotten about that (what's it called again?), thanks. 
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: (what's it called again?),
Expensive
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Worse, when I read the competition, the dates seemed totally out of whack.
Marc
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And improving too - it doesn't bend as easily as an iPhone 6! 
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That's an improvement? I thought that the "foldable phone" was its big selling point?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Iphone 6 is out of reach in terms of money for middle class here in India..
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Cheaper eh? You get to choose now do you? Arm or a leg?
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WO!
It's got an even bigger screen than the iphone 6+!
Can't stop to talk now; I'm going to queue up outside the apple store, and wait for the general release!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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There was a Scottish painter named Smokey MacGregor who was very interested in making a penny where he could, so he often thinned down his paint to make it go a wee bit further.
As it happened, he got away with this for some time, but eventually the local church decided to do a big restoration job on the outside of one of their biggest buildings. Smokey put in a bid and, because his price was so low, he got the job.
So he set about erecting the scaffolding and setting up the planks, and buying the paint and, yes, I am sorry to say, thinning it down with turpentine...
Well, Smokey was up on the scaffolding, painting away, the job nearly completed, when suddenly there was a horrendous clap of thunder, the sky opened, and the rain poured down washing the thinned paint from all over the church and knocking Smokey clear off the scaffold to land on the lawn among the gravestones, surrounded by tell-tale puddles of the thinned and useless paint.
Smokey was no fool. He knew this was a judgment from the Almighty, so he got down on his knees and cried "Oh God, Oh God, forgive me! What should I do?"
And from the thunder, a mighty voice spoke... "Repaint! Repaint! And thin no more!"
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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