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Top 10 Ways To Lose Your Data
bettiwettiwoo writes "The BBC has a article on the Top 10 Ways To Lose Your Data due to the human factor. According to Kroll Ontrack, a recovery firm, the top ten include: laptop being shot in anger (naturally); laptop fell off a moped and was run over by lorry (some laptops just weren't meant to live); server rescued after running unchecked 24/7 for years under layers of dust and dirt; and my personal favourite, laptop dropped in bath while doing company accounts. One of my sister-in-laws apparently repeatedly lost data while writing university assignments by kicking the plug to her desktop out of its socket. It was never really clear to me why she didn't avoid (much) of that problem by using frequent automatic backup, but she didn't. Instead she had her mother pop in at regular intervals to remind her to save manually."
Totally OT so I'm posting AC.
First, your link with properly formatted HTML tags:
Why did IBM stock go down?
Now to explain. IBM made their earnings numbers last quarter, but missed on revenues. Lately the market has been paying a lot of attention to IBM's revenues, and not just profits, because actually growing the business is more important (in a long term sense) then growing profits by cutting expenses. Also, the article mentions at the bottom an analyst that put out a "sell" rating on IBM. It must be bad; we all know how common sell ratings are.
That's less than $1 per "portable" GB. Not bad at all.
I bought two...