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The Institute for Backup Trauma
fief writes "John Cleese explains why tape based backup solutions will drive a manager insane in a viral marketing bit for Live Vault. (flash required) Produced by the Captains of Industry. Links provided via AdRants" Barely an ad, mostly just hilarious. Also contains Michael Dorn. Use as directed.
I saw this when it was mentioned on the LangaList a few weeks ago. Very funny, in my opinion, and it's good to see that this company doesn't take itself *too* seriously.
It's probably safe to say I'll remember them, so from a marketing point of view it would be a success.
The nyud.net mirror seems to be holding up for me at least.
I think the problem lays more with the server than with your connection. The speed at which you download is limited to the slowest component of the network; if the server has been /.ed, regardless of your connection speed, you will download slowly.
Mind you, you are probably right about the file being too big. If it weren't that big, the server might not have been overwhelmed.
Tools-->Options-->Go to the "Advanced" button next to where it says "Enable Javascript"-->Deselect "Move or resize existing windows".
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
You do realize that the whole, "Fire your ancestors" thing was a gag based on Michael Dorn, aka Worf, delivering the line, doncha?
It wasn't flat writing, you just didn't get the joke.
The earliest you could have seen it is February 2005, because I remember when my uncle finished it.
Combining Kev Vance's comment about a direct link to the movie and nstrom's comment about using the Nyud.net mirror, I give you a high-bandwidth direct link:
L V/LVCleese_LG.flv
http://www.backuptrauma.com.nyud.net:8090/video/F
coding is life
Thanks for the direct link, Kev. Their server seems to be extremely slow right now, so I'd suggest using the Coral Mirror of the file.
I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven...
ACtually, it doesn't appear to be a stream at all. Saving the FLV should give you the entire video. The video is embedded in a set of flash controls for said video, and like any other flash movie you've seen it can start before the download is complete, and moniter it's own download status.
FLV is essentially MPEG-4 in a flash container, and the flash controls offer no signifigant overhead, so offering a "downloadable" version wouldn't even give you any real difference in terms of download size.
The latest version of MPlayer (1.0pre7) can play Flash videos. 1.0pre7 is pretty recent so depending on how quick Ubuntu is, there may be a binary package available now.
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Actually, he's been known to do totally inside-audience industrial training videos, too. Stuff we'll never get to see. I think he just likes Being John Cleese, Explaining Stuff. I we love him when he does, so what's not to like.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
One of the scariest moments of my life was formatting my company's 150GB Netware server. It died early one Monday morning: power supply and two disks in the RAID just vaporized. The UPS, mysteriously, was fine. This was a 60-person architecture office; architecture's nearly all electronic these days, so that server *was* the company.
I put in new drives and restored from the previous Friday's tape. One guy had done some work on Saturday, which he lost, but everything else was perfect. Numerous times I've gone back to a tape from months previously (grandfather-father-son scheme) to get one or two files, and I've never had one failure. So personally, I'm a big believer in tapes.
This isn't as much "normalization" as it is "don't take so many drugs when you're designing tables."
According to LiveVault's website and some Google research, LiveVault is in no way owned by CA (Computer Associates).
No offense, but where did you get that idea?
Here's a little tip I know.
:)
Now I'm on windows, but I use firefox so we should have a base to work with.
if you go to the address bar and type "about:cache" AFTER you've visted the site with the flash movie, it will show up in your cache index.
I've tried it, and not only did I find the SWF, but firefox also cached the link to the FLV file.
Typing in the FLV or trying to "save as" didn't work initially, so I created a simple html doc with 1 href to the link, and now I'm downloading the 26 meg FLV.
Ah look, it's done. Cheers
TIP: If you see "LVCleese_LG.flv" you're on the right track.
When you "take out" a HDD by electric shock, you need to replace a component on it to get it working again. When you "take out" a tape by electric shock, the data is gone, and you might not be able to use the tape ever again. Tapes really should be enclosed in metal casings like drives are...
No, no, that is only the online life expectancy. Try re-writing a tape constantly for 5 years straight and see how long it lasts. If you store a hard drive like you store a tape, it can last a very long time.
If you keep them online, the lifetime of an individual drive doesn't matter one damn bit, because when one goes bad, you swap it out, data is restored, and there's no problem... When an important tape goes bad, you're not in good shape.
Hard drives are MUCH easier to check for problems (even if normally offline) which would alert you to data-loss much sooner.
The biggest thing hard drives have going for them, IMHO, is price. No need to buy a $30000 drive, and the per-GB cost of hard drives is close to tape as well.
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