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 weirdI just got the weirdest email written by someone who SEEMS to speak English, but I dun understand it. He is talking about death and blood and a bunch of other berserk stuff, but he mentions God several times. I have NO clue what he is going on about and there is NO way I am following the link he left at the end where he says: This video recordings and instant death, and many wonder what you see and what I feel I have created this space their own information page I have written. Please see there, you will not believe. Uh, NO! I make it a point never to go to places where they are talking about instant death!  And of course, he has put it on msn's spaces.live.com --->The PERFECT place for bullshit. | ||||||||||
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**This article is funny, sarcastic and educational. Those of you with Sidekicks who wonder where your contacts went should read definitely read it. Anyone else who doesn't quite realise the value of the term 'backup' also needs to partake of this. Nik Cubrilovic TechCrunch.com Washington Post Saturday, October 10, 2009  The big story today is about Microsoft subsidiary Danger losing all T-Mobile Sidekick customer data from their servers. Danger is the company noted for the T-Mobile Sidekick, the revolution in cloud mobile, and most memorably, almost everybody living in 90210 having to get new phone numbers because of Paris Hilton. Valued T-Mobile Sidekick customers received a notice today from the company updating them on the "data disruption" problem. The good news is that data is no longer being disrupted. The bad news is that there is no data left to be disrupted.This latest large-scale publicized data loss will surely lead to managers everywhere forwarding a link to the story to their IT departments asking "what are we doing so that this doesn't happen to us." It will lead to the issue of data loss and backups being written about ad naseum by technology pundits. Research companies will rub their hands together as they prepare new 80 page whitepapers with titles such as "How Companies Who Pay Us Money Can Prevent Your Data Being Lost" (complete with FDA "may cause drowsiness" warning label on the cover). Consultants will flock to their customers, pat them on the head, and reassure them that everything is ok because their project specification powerpoint shows that they included two of everything (and charged for it). Backups are a hard sell. Most of us don't want to think about things going wrong (or put more colloquially, shit hitting the fan). Spending your Saturday afternoon staring at a progress meter that seems to be moving backwards is the polar opposite of fun. If there was a brainwave study of people in the process of backing up data, it would probably show no activity at all (but they could use the results to help calibrate the machines). Furthering the point of no interest, Google trends shows that while the volume of news stories about backups and data loss is increasing over time, volume from people searching about it is proportionately decreasing. We are only shaken out of this slumber briefly when there is an incident such as the one at Danger this week. Like the death of a celebrity from a drug overdose, publicized data loss incidents remind us that we should probably do something about taking better care of our data. But we usually don't, because we quickly remind ourselves that backups are boring as hell, and that it's shark week on Discovery. Our previously well thought out backup and recovery plans are expunged as we scan the perimeter of the clinic for the shortest fence to jump over and bolt back to freedom. Those who are organized and backup their data usually discover the later, larger, part of the problem -- restoring from a backup: Where did I put the backup? It's an old copy. That file I was just working on isn't there. It was never actually backing up. No software I use can read this stupid fucking format, etc. For most of us, by backing up, we are only setting ourselves up for a bigger failure down the road. ( >>Continued ) | ||||||||||
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