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Join hands CLAP
to catch TRAP
rubbish
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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How prepared are you with disaster recovery & business continuity- Personally?
Okay I'm using these big terms for the sake of message beautification.
In other words, how well prepared are you, if you are notebooks dies off, all of a sudden?
You have all your data synced to cloud or to an external drive?
Do you have a secondary machine to pick up from where the primary one ceased, with all the tools & environments setup?
Few days back I had a real bad issue with my notebook it kept crashing during boot & landing into a BSD. I'm glad I have all the docs stored right no cloud. Like, maybe 90% of the docs - we manage online. It's such a relief. I could just drop off my primary notebook and continue with my secondary one, as I had all environment set up,readily.
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There are no ladders around my house I could walk under. There are no banana peels. I have small piles of salt in each room, ready to throw over my shoulder. I have shoulder-mounted mirrors where I can look both ways for oncoming traffic without moving my head.
Before I reboot after a Windows update, I draw a pentagram, and put a drop of my blood in the center while cursing Microsoft and Google.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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BillWoodruff wrote: Before I reboot after a Windows update, I draw a pentagram, and put a drop of my blood in the center while cursing Microsoft and Google.
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BillWoodruff wrote: There are no ladders around my house I could walk under. There are no banana peels. I have small piles of salt in each room, ready to throw over my shoulder. I have shoulder-mounted mirrors where I can look both ways for oncoming traffic without moving my head.
You should add this to the list - "I dont own newer Thinkpad models".
I think, Thinkpads are no more thinkpads. 
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BillWoodruff wrote: I draw a pentagram
Wouldn't a real witch/wizard prefer a hexagram (AKA a "star of David")? 
BillWoodruff wrote: while cursing Microsoft and Google
Never curse others; bad karma is only too likely to rebound on to you. My preferred option is to wish them all the success possible - in a parallel Universe.
(It could, of course, be that we inhabit that parallel Universe )
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Hi Daniel,
With great respect, may I draw your attention to the fact that the "Star of David," as palladial icon for Judaism, is recently adopted (19th. century), in the context of Zionism: of course there are a few ancient instances, ornamental, Kabbalistic:[^] The sign's use in Islam, associated with magic (Seal of Solomon) may be as ancient. And, note that Hasmonean Judaism was fervently aniconic, and condemned any form of magic.
The pentagram has much more ancient ritual use, although it also occurs in the Christian tradition: [^].
Of course, the most pluripotent magical sign is the capital letter "I," and its associated phoneme.Quote: “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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I've been doing it so long I just draw a square!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I'm well aware that the "star of David" has nothing to do with the biblical king of that name. I was trying to pun on the word "hex", but it fell flat.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Quote: The word “hex” is both a noun and a verb which can either be transitive or intransitive. It can refer to the act of practicing witchcraft or the process of putting an evil spell over someone or something. It is also sometimes referred to as a jinx.
It is likewise synonymous with the words “charm” (to chant or recite a magic spell), “enchant” (to influence through incantations and charms), “bewitch” (to cast a spell over), or “strike” (to affect someone or something with a magic spell).
A hex is expected to bring bad luck to the one who is put under it. It is considered as an evil spell because it wishes bad things to happen to whom it is cast. The infliction and removal of hexes are often done by those who practice witchcraft, and they can be found in every society in most parts of the world.
The word “hex” has been used in Pennsylvania since the early 1800s where there were a number of German and Swiss immigrants. It came from the Pennsylvania Dutch/German word “hexe” which means “to practice sorcery or witchcraft.”
cheers, Bill
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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BillWoodruff wrote: the most pluripotent magical sign is the capital letter "I,"
There's no phallic symbolism in witchcraft, oh no.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Never curse others; bad karma is only too likely to rebound on to you.
As amply demonstrated by a curse often ascribed to the Chinese, which goes: "May you live in interesting times".
The only way for the curser to avoid living in the same interesting times as the cursee is by dying.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yes, but what special precautions do you take?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I have most of my files on an external HD.
If that one dies I'll be over in the corner crying my eyes out in fetal position 
In other words, completely unprepared 
All my code is in the cloud, so at least it'll be business as usual professionally.
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Sander Rossel wrote: If that one dies I'll be over in the corner crying my eyes out in fetal position
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Replace it with a three (or four) disk NAS box running RAID5 - that way a single HDD failure isn't fatal, the data can be fully recovered from the other two. (It works: I had one go down and the NAS worked flawlessly with just two while I waited for the replacement to be delivered)
If the electronics fail, you can generally read the disks in a new enclosure by the same manufacturer (but not a different one, they all use their own RAID controllers, even if the actual disks are all stored formatted as EX2).
And HDD failure is guaranteed; electronics tend to last considerably longer.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Replace it with a three (or four) disk NAS box running RAID5
That sounds difficult and expensive and I don't do hardware 
I'll probably buy a second external disk somewhere in the future and copy everything there.
Or put some stuff in the cloud.
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It's really simple: buy the box, plug it in. Connect it to your network (instructions will be with the unit) and via your browser tell it what RAID level you want. Then just set up shares as if it was a computer.
Easy-peasy, honest.
And not that expensive: a 12TB unit complete with 4 * 3tb Disks is cheaper than a new lappie: Seagate 12TB Cloud Business Network Storage 4 Bay DLNA RAID NAS Gigabit Ethernet 7636490032042 | eBay[^] (I have the 16TB previous version of this and it's given me no problems in the three or four years I've had it)
Yes, you could buy a second external disk for a quarter of that, but ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm thinking of moving my stuff to One Drive or some such.
Way cheaper and at least I'll still have my files when the house burns down 
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Quote: I have most of my files on an external HD
I have them on multiple external HDs with multiple backup copies on yet more external HDs. I have at least three copies of everything, four copies for the really essential files, plus additional (encrypted and zipped) copies on OneDrive and Dropbox.
I just had two external 5TB hard drives, 2yr old and 3yr old, turn into doorstops and have ordered two replacements (8TB) that should arrive tomorrow. Funnily enough, I have a bunch of 2TB HDs that are a lot older (6+ years) and still running strong. You can never tell.
I haven't lost a file this millenium.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: I have at least three copies of everything, four copies for the really essential files, plus additional (encrypted and zipped) copies on OneDrive and Dropbox.
Five to six copies of everything? 
1000 years from now...
News anchor: "Researchers have found what appears to be yet another copy of a folder called 'Forogar vacation pictures' containing the same pictures as in previous excavations.
Having found these same images around the world researcher now wonder, who was Forogar?"
Researcher: "We have found no records of any Forogar anywhere, yet his vacation pictures keep turning up around the world, this is the 50th finding."
News anchor: "In other news, Leslie Nielson has died..."
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Quote: Five to six copies of everything?
Yeah, I know. Only five copies of some things - but I only have so much disk space and bandwidth available. Compromises have to be made sometimes. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Well, you can't be paranoid enough... Or can you!?
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I have:
- A NAS server, to which all PCs and portables in the house are backed up once a week.
- An image of the NAS server, taken monthly, stored at home. This is rotated with
- An image of the NAS server, taken monthly, stored off-site.
All my personal data are backed up to a level sufficient for my needs.
Our area is not susceptible to floods (~200 meters above sea level, ~20 kilometers inland). Should I need to replace the hardware (e.g. due to theft or a fire), I have no reason to assume that the shops will not be open. If a major earthquake or a nuclear war hits the area, I'll have bigger problems than my hardware...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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