The "be nice to SY01" thread

[Drewster]

Absolutely true but I'm keeping it a secret.

But if the audience was bigger than all X-Factor viewing figures put together that is roughly equal to 1/2 the worlds population which means that quite a lot of us were there - so its not that much of a secret!

Lets think about this......
Band/Live Aid...... I am pretty sure you weren't one of the named acts!
Were you one of the backing musicians?

Oh hang on...... You are not really Dave Gilmour are you?

[Cliphead]

Lets think about this......
Band/Live Aid...... I am pretty sure you weren't one of the named acts!
Were you one of the backing musicians?

Close

[MarillionFan]

Close

You worked in a burger van at the World Cup and they flashed your picture up playing a vuvuzela?

[Zippy]

Close

Come on, spill the beans.

[RichardCranium]

The "be nice to SY01" thread

SY01 goes into a pub and wanders up to the bar. There's nobody about.

While he's waiting, a little voice says "You're looking good today".

SY01 looks round and, no, there's nobody about. Pumps on the bar, some nuts in dishes on the tables, crisps and pork scratchings on the shelf behind, but no punters and no barman.

Then he hears "You're doing just great".

He peers over the counter - there's nobody hiding behind it.

"The world is your oyster and you can do anything you want if you put your mind to it."

At this point the barman appears.

"Excuse me," says SY01. "But I keep hearing a voice saying nice things to me."

"That's OK," says the barman. "That the nuts. They're complimentary."

[Boudica]

SY we have all put in and are buying you a wooden leg for Xmas, it's not your main present, it's a stocking filler

boom! boom!

[Platypus]

I use dropbox for automatic sync'ing to the "cloud"...

Hubris.

Dropbox once deleted all my files. Be careful if/when sharing !

Means I can recover all my files automatically just by installing the client should I suffer some sort of failure.

Oh yeah? So what happens when you re-install the client and it notices that your local dropbox is empty? Does it (a) Copy everything back from the cloud, or (b) delete everything in the cloud thereby "syncing" with your local dropbox?!

[Mr.Whippy]

Oh yeah? So what happens when you re-install the client and it notices that your local dropbox is empty? Does it (a) Copy everything back from the cloud, or (b) delete everything in the cloud thereby "syncing" with your local dropbox?!

The answer is A. I've installed and reinstalled the client numerous times on numerous machines without issue.

*if* it did in fact delete your files, which I've not experienced in almost 2 years of use on 6 machines. Why didn't you just restore them from the dropbox web interface which is very easily done? Failing that, you could raise a ticket and dropbox would be able to restore them for you.

[d000hg]

At what point does someone come up with the cliché?

There are two kinds of people: those who take backups and those who haven't had a catastrophic disk failure.

I think there are 3 distinctions:

- Those who don't take backups
- Those who tell you about their backup strategy
- Those who have had to use their backup strategy in real life

Having stuff backed up doesn't mean it's easy to get up and running, I think most only worry about the first part. Myself included... but then losing a few hours doesn't leave me screwed in any real way.

[suityou01]

I think you need to draw a distinction between a backup and a drive image. Drives are pretty chunky these days and I'm sure none of you is paying $1/gig to store a 500Gb image in the cloud. Rather you backup your data.

I do backup my data and have tested a restore from backup on a virtual machine, so it is a proven backup. To that end I am not worried.

Rather my ignorance of piling all my eggs into one machine so that when it blows I lose my ability to invoice, and work all at the same time, is the thing I lament.

My funky new laptop has cured the second point, and I restored from a backup to be able to get up and running in under 30 mins.

The linux server is another question as this needs an OS rebuild, and I am switching distros from Ubuntu to CentOs (thanks for the steer ClipHead)
This will take a lot longer.