Big Problems at the encyclopedia

[awagner]

Hi Gaetan,

I was sorry to hear that you have had such a terrible computer setback and
hope you will find the energy and time to repair the damage done and to get
the Encyclopedia back on its feet. Best wishes, Anton Wagner.

----- Original Message -----
From: Gaetan Charlebois <blajeune at TOTAL.NET>
To: <CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 11:39 PM
Subject: Big Problems at the encyclopedia


> Hello all
>
> Last month I had a catastophic crash on my computer and lost everything; I
> have just gotten the repared computer back.
>
> Needless to say, I have the encyclopedia and its support materials on
> diskette but the new hard drive, the 40 or so programs I use, etc. will
have
> to be reinstalled and configured. Also, my address book for my e-mail
> program was lost and I will be digging around for addresses and will have
to
> reinscribe the 500 or so addresses I use manually; also the
> favourites/bookmarks on my browser perished (hundreds of newspaper and
> research
> and archival sites have to be - in some cases - refound and reinscribed);
> updated drivers for all the peripherals have to be found (on the net) and
> reinstalled so that I can get things like external disk drives (which hold
> the saved enyclopedia and its papers) to work.
>
> This means research and additions to the project have been set back for a
> very long time. I have no idea what caused this but a computer which had
not
> even been paid for yet had to have massively expensive repairs.
>
> I cannot tell you how much of a blow this is to me and the project. It
means
> step by patient and cautious step recreation of electronic infrastructures
> and procedures which took four years to create.
>
> Besides that...happy New Year.
>
> Gaetan Charlebois (editor, Encyclopedia of Canadian Theatre on the WWW)
>