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  • I hate computers: confessions of a sysadmin

    I hate computers: confessions of a sysadmin

    Posted on April 22, 2010 | No Comments
    I often wonder if plumbers reach a point in their career, after cleaning clogged drain after clogged drain, that they begin to hate plumbing. They hate pipes. They hate plumber’s putty. They hate all the tricks they’ve learned over the years, and they hate the need to have to learn tricks. It’s plumbing, for goodness [...]

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  • Lord of the Rings Blu-ray trilogy on track for April release, but don’t buy it

    Lord of the Rings Blu-ray trilogy on track for April release, but don’t buy it

    Posted on December 14, 2009 | No Comments
    Too bad the upcoming $99 Blu-ray release is just the theatrical edition and not the extended-cut version. It’s not even worth the $69 price Amazon has it set at for pre-order as you know the other version will come out eventually anyway. New Line just wants fans to double dip. Fail. Amazon via High-Def Digest

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  • Samsung dual screen camera big bucket of fail

    Samsung dual screen camera big bucket of fail

    Posted on November 6, 2009 | No Comments
    http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/08/13/samsung-unveils-a-camera-with-a-screen-on-the-front/

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  • Another Windows 7 launch party in Japan, another touchscreen failure

    Another Windows 7 launch party in Japan, another touchscreen failure

    Posted on October 26, 2009 | No Comments
    Judging from this video, the Windows 7 launch in Japan was certainly more, shall we say, flamboyant then the launch here in the US. But the really amusing part is the fact that the host couldn't get the touchscreen to work.

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  • Sidekick failure rumors point fingers at outsourcing, lack of backups

    Sidekick failure rumors point fingers at outsourcing, lack of backups

    Posted on October 11, 2009 | No Comments

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    Backing up your personal PC to external media might still be a novel concept for some, but any IT manager fresh out of school can tell you that regularly backing up mission-critical servers -- and storing those backups in multiple physical locations -- isn't merely important, it's practically non-negotiable, and it only becomes that much more critical before undertaking hardware maintenance. Alleged details on the events leading up to Danger's doomsday scenario are starting to come out of the woodwork, and it all paints a truly embarrassing picture: Microsoft, possibly trying to compensate for lost and / or laid-off Danger employees, outsources an upgrade of its Sidekick SAN to Hitachi, which -- for reasons unknown -- fails to make a backup before starting. Long story short, the upgrade runs into complications, data is lost, and without a backup to revert to, untold thousands of Sidekick users get shafted in an epic way rarely seen in an age of well-defined, well-understood IT strategies.

    The coming weeks are going to be trying times for both Microsoft and T-Mobile, a sideline player in this carnage that ultimately still shoulders responsibility for taking users' cash month after month and keeping tabs on the robustness of its partners' workflows. We're betting that heads are going to roll at both of these companies, formal investigations are going to be waged, users are going to be compensated in big ways, lawsuits are going to be filed, and textbooks could very well be modified to make sure that lessons are learned for the next generation of college grads tasked with keeping clouds running. Why there weren't any backups -- even older ones -- that could've been used as a restore point is totally unclear, so we're hoping Microsoft has the stones to come clean for the benefit of an entire industry that wants to understand how to make sure this never happens again.

    Sidekick failure rumors point fingers at outsourcing, lack of backups originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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