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Comment on Why I Hate Frameworks by My Domain

My Domain — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:17:14 +0000

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Comment on Why I Hate Frameworks by Finally Onto WPF at New Fun Blog – Scott Bilas

Finally Onto WPF at New Fun Blog – Scott Bilas — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:07:08 +0000

[...] it’s not difficult to pick up. There’s some crazy complicated 20-levels-deep-stack logic that makes it all work under the hood, but the end result is that you just cover your eyes and type [...]

Comment on Calamity! by How good are your backups? « Successful Software

How good are your backups? « Successful Software — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:09:33 +0000

[...] having multiple forms of backup. If you think backing up to a single USB disk is enough you should read this. If you are relying purely on an third party online backup service you should consider what would [...]

Comment on Idea #17: Composer’s Workbench by PianoDraft

PianoDraft — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:15:28 +0000

PianoDraft…

Megacool Blog indeed!… if anyone else has anything it would be much appreciated. Great website Enjoy!…

Comment on Idea #1: WebDelve: Small Business Web Analytics by stock market software

stock market software — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:01:17 +0000

stock market software…

Any idea if there are similar blogs like this related to stock market software?…

Comment on Eternity II is here!! by Miquel

Miquel — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:09:09 +0000

I haver order the game, but it will take 2-3 weeks to arrive. Does anybody has a list of the pieces in a txt file? I will be very gratefully mcubel@gmail.com

Comment on Calamity! by Andy

Andy — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:47:51 +0000

Strangely enough the hard drive on my 3 years old laptop crashed a couple of weeks ago. For some miraculous reasons I was testing my very own Online Backup product that works on top of Amazon S3 and I backed up the folder with my most important documents. I wish I backed up all of them! Once the disk crashed I restored my files having development team to fix some issues along the way and I could continue my work in a couple of hours. This sounds like promotion and it is really is, but it really helps to backup up your data regularly offsite. It also worth mentioning that a repair shop asked me for $1 000 to get my data back from the hard drive and they will need about a week to work with it … and you have to visit their shop losing another couple of hours.
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Comment on Calamity! by stu

stu — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:36:40 +0000

I feel your pain Benji. Been there done that. I now label all my drives with the month and year I purchased them – and I try to stagger the purchases and use different brands to avoid a potentially bad batch from a single vendor – and I plan to rotate them after about 3 years. I back up my backups now on both hard disk as well as optical media (dual layer DVDs, planning to migrate to blue-ray). I also use shadow protect for my backups – best software there is. It will do a bare metal restore on a new disk, or even completely different machine direct from your backups. You can schedule incremental backups as frequently as every 15mins. This is a great saviour if you accidentally overwrite something from earlier in the day. Can’t recommend it enough.

Comment on Calamity! by Peter Harkins

Peter Harkins — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:36:20 +0000

I would think two drives would fail within a day of one another. Not just general Murphy’s Law pessimism, but lots of things like brownouts, power spikes, fire, theft, water damage, and rampaging children can destroy a coupe hard drives.

I’ll chime in as another fan of JungleDisk, and I’m sorry for your data loss.

Comment on Calamity! by Brendan Grant

Brendan Grant — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:39:38 +0000

Talk about bad luck, sorry to hear it, here’s hoping the recovery folks can assist.

I don’t know if you are a Windows user… if so, I really would suggest looking into building or buying a Windows Home Server.

Not only does it do an automatic nightly backup of your PC’s, but also preserves backups over time so that you can easily recover files (or an entire system) back to the way they were yesterday, last week or even last month.

It also works as a great central repository for documents, photos, music and movies, and when multiple hard drives are added to its storage pool (USB, Firewire, IDE or SATA), you can enable duplication on a per share basis (a single check box) which instructs the underlying system to make sure that files in that share exist on two hard drives instead of one.

Heck, given it is Windows under the hood, you could also run your Subversion server on it.

In full disclosure I am kinda partial to the product as I work on it at Microsoft… but then it is the reason I came to this company.