Half a week ago I was working on my final year project report, when my laptop suddenly began to behave strangely and randomly shutting down. A day later I found the problem: the CPU appeared to have died, causing the laptop to prevent overheating by shutting itself down. All my data, which resides in the harddisk, fortunately remained intact. It did gave me a good scare.
A few hours ago, I was applying final touches to the report. I was working on my laptop (with an improvised cooling system) while doing other tasks on my desktop, including writing a long todo list for the report. All of a sudden, my desktop rebooted, taking with it my unsaved todo list.
It is most frustrating when computers start shutting down or rebooting unpredictably. When you are working on an urgent piece of work, that becomes a frightening experience.
Feeling insecure about more data losses, I decided to search for a more reliable technology. The report must be word-processed, that I can do nothing about. The todo list, on the other hand...
I picked up a pen and some scrap paper and began rebuilding the list.
