Development on Hold
My laptop’s SSD died a few days ago (completed wiped itself), so I’m going to be taking a break from developing Musical until Dell fixes it (I’ve arranged a repair and the box should be arriving soon). I super lucked out though and have a 100% up to date backup (I didn’t lose a single thing). I was going to try out Windows 7, so I made a full backup of my SSD to an external HD and then wiped the SSD to install Windows 7. A few hours later, the SSD was gone (and, as much as I’d like to blame it on Windows 7, I don’t think it’s possible). Since I did all of my Android development on that machine, I’m just going to wait until Dell fixes it, then restore my backup. If Dell takes an outrageous time (which is completely possible–they already mixed up my phone number with a random business customer also in Santa Cruz and tried to schedule a repair to fix a cable on my Latitude notebook… nice try Dell), I’ll have to setup one of my other laptops with the Android SDK. Whatever happens though, I will post updates here on my blog. The frustrating thing, is that I got a SSD based laptop because of my terrible HD luck (every hard drive I’ve ever had in a laptop has corrupted itself)–apparently my plan worked out great…it only lasted a few months before completely destroying everything (although it was also my first Dell laptop, having previously used IBM ThinkPads and HP consumer notebooks, so I can always blame it on Dell). Thanks Dell!