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Ma.gnolia User Data Is Gone For Good
miller60 writes "The social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia reports that all its user data was irretrievably lost in the Jan. 30 database crash that knocked the service offline. Ma.gnolia founder Larry Halff recently discussed the crash and the lessons to be learned from Ma.gnolia's experience. A lesson for users: don't assume online services have lots of staff and servers, and always keep backup copies of your data. Ma.gnolia was a one-man operation running on two Mac OS X servers and four Mac minis."
Using Macs is bad enough...but four Mac minis?! The money spent on cute little toys could have instead bought much beefier x86 hardware running a *nix.
Yet another example of MacFag "Oooh, shiny" idiocy. He probably own a Zune and plays Pokemon, too.
Idiot. Yeah he's a "MacFag" and owns a ZUNE. Did you even think before you hit submit? Of course you didn't...
It's just UNIX for morons. Again, why are we surprised that they got fucked up?
And how can they be slashdot worthy when they are a social networking site with ONLY a half a terabyte of data? In short, who cares?
Because they have an Alexa rating higher than Slashdot's?
Actually, they don't, but I would not be surprised if /. has no more than a terabyte of data. It's all text, no images. That's what lets it stand up to the /. effect on itself, and why it's the only site that didn't crash like a hijacked 767 on 11-9-2001. Size is not all that matters, even in social networking pissing contests.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
re4sons why anyone an arduous to be about doing prima doonas, and
Seriously. No backup? At all?
Of course, it's not like it matters. I've never heard of ma.gnolia, and I doubt very many other people have. This dumbass gets what he deserves.
Because you get what you pay for hardware-wise? Next-day and on-site service are very well, but I'd rather actually have a machine that doesn't need replacing every day.
Wow and I was using this, because Jeffrey Zeldman told me to. Time to switch to Delicious and never use anything this company ever makes again. Fail.
...Seriously, do people still not realise that OS X is just UNIX with a pretty UI?
Ah, ask the average 17-year old girl going off to college that just HAD to have a Macbook (with a pink cover no less) what the operating system is based on. What percentage of Macbook owners would be able to answer that accurately regardless of gender?
Apple is 1% hardware and 99% Marketing. Not too much they do can't be done on a Dell or HP. They just make it appear to do it better/slicker/faster, that's all.
zunes? fuck zunes. i was hoping to hear a joke about COONS by now. theres usually at least one NIGGER joke when this many posts have been modded troll... ah well fuck it, looks like i gotta do everything myself.
what do you call a bunch of black people hanging out near a barn? antique farm equipment.