The Map App was the feature that sold me on the iPhone and got me off feature phones. The rest was fluff (at least at the time), Maps was the killer feature.
"Uptime"...has a more pointless metric ever been created?
It's very, very difficult to crash any decently mature OS at this point, reguardless of load. This means "uptime" really means "unpatched time", because for most all systems it's most accurately a measure of how infrequently updates are applied or how diligent the admins are generally. Yes, most updates to most systems won't require a reboot...but a diligent admin will bounce them anyway in most cases...if only to be sure they still restart correctly (that the startup process for both OS and services hasn't been botched, etc).
The Linux community (very much including Linus himself) makes the mistake of subjecting the entire user base to lab experiments. The community is a combination of bleeding edge lab experiments (mostly on the core OS side) and blatant copying (mostly on the GUI side).
So users get the best of both worlds: A half baked GUI cloned from Windows and Mac, running on top of an immature, unstable OS.
As to my experience, considering how much I get around I'm quite confident it is typical. In common hypocritical fashion, you've made the mistake of seeing your ONE fanboi filled Linux shop and generalized it to the world. I've worked with dozens of organizations large and small, with all sorts of love affairs with all different kinds of software. Yes, your Linux-only shop happens, but not very commonly. It's almost exclusively the domain of tiny startup groups filled with 20-somethings right out of college programming Ruby.
The fact is there isn't any modern Unix system from any vendor that makes for a better workstation then Windows 7, even for doing Unix-centric work. I held onto my Unix workstations longer then practically anyone I've known, and even I gave them up once Cygwin was solid.
Windows Server is still a pathetic excuse for a Server OS in practically every possible way, for which Unix still solidly holds the prize. But while any Linux system is wildly better then any Windows system for server use, it's still the worst of all Unix options. It beats Windows only because Windows is so bad, not because Linux is so good.
Mostly I compare Linux against other Unix systems, not Windows. To which even the most modern distributions (the plethora of distributions being a large part of the problem itself) can't even stand up against most other Unix systems from over a decade ago. *BSD, Solaris, HPUX, Irix.
a.out vs ELF libc vs glibc VM of the week Filesystem of the week Package system of the week Source management via an email Inbox of patch files, seriously? KDE vs GNOME Does audio work yet? etc, etc, etc.
The point is Linux, at its very heart, is a hacked up experimental prototype. Nothing is polished, nothing is built well, transitions and stability are never considered. Why bother? It's an erector set, it's built to be tinkered with. It's not built to be a final product, it's not built to be part of anything else's final product (see GPL). The fact that it has been as wildly successful in the market as it has is a frightening testimony.
But since you're focused on Windows: Frankly Windows 7 with Cygwin makes for a far better "Unix Workstation" in most every conceivable way then any Linux system ever made. By workstation I refer to a personal computer used for productive work. Office tasks sure, but the whole of software engineering very much included. Which is why you still find practically no Linux workstations at the desks of nearly any real professionals. Even the heavily Unix centric guys are running terminals from a Windows machine.
All that NIMBY stuff is just more reason why a line down the 405 makes far, far, ***FAR*** more sense then any of those asinine distraction projects.
A line down the CENTER of the 405 freeway, much like how the Gold Line was built, completely avoids all those NIMBY issues. It doesn't matter if they are valid or not, they simply don't exist when we're talking about the 405.
Grade crossing issues? There are none.
Blight? There is none (as wide as the 405 is, I'll be nearly impossible to see a rail line in the middle of it, even elevated).
Modern smartphones often can't fall off a desk without risking catastrophic results.
While riding my bike, my old Nokia phones fell out of my pocket at over 30 miles per hour onto hard asphalt. Multiple times. A few scratches, but otherwise fine. I used to drop my phones all the time...because I didn't care, I trusted they were fine with abuse. It really took a LOT to kill a Nokia phone. I think only my old original StarTac was stronger.
Using git (or any decent VCS) as the engine behind an updater system is incredibly smart and powerful. Roll your OS patches forward, backwards, merge customizations in or out, all very reliably, trackable, and managable. That isn't magic, it's just smart. A hell of a lot smarter then rolling one's own from scratch.
It always amazes me how often and fiercely the Linux crowd equates banging one's head against the wall with "understanding", "willingness to learn", "freedom", or most laughable of all, "power". It's bad ideas, half implemented, and hastily shipped off to the masses. Lather, rinse, repeat.
It's very rare to see solidly good ideas advanced in the Linux world and this is why: Moronic "If it's not hard it's not good!" fanbois trashing any smart idea that might pop its head up as quickly and vehemently as possible.
There's a new study showing off yet another newly found health benifit of drinking coffee it seems like every week. It's nearly impossible to find much of any negative science on drinking coffee.
The same can't quite be said for smoking...
When I worked in technical theater production we had a saying, "The production that runs out of coffee or donuts is the production that runs over budget.". You skimped on many thing, but you *never* let a crew run out of coffee. Ever.
Hell, as a software engineer I'm little more then a biologically refinery transforming coffee and sugar into code.
You'll find most every office on the planet provides free coffee. Many go out of their way to make sure that coffee is exceptionally high quality. Has a single one ever provided free smokes? Yah, that's what I thought.
While it's true LA has spent a fortune on "transit" in the last few decades, it still hasn't take it seriously. A "renaissance"? Not even close.
Take the 405 freeway. One of the most congested roadways on the entire planet, with both very densely populated residential areas and very densely packed businesses. It's an absurdly ideal case for commuter rail, just build an elevated track down the center from the north SF Valley down to Orange County and you'd make the single largest impact on transportation any city on the planet has ever made. ANY other effort is nothing but a distraction until and unless that is done, period.
What do we do instead? We spend massive amounts on rail projects that come and go from anywhere except where people live, work, or the bulk of our congestion happens. We setup multiple rail lines that you need to switch mid-trip to complete your commute, but make you do that switch outside...in the worst, gang-ridden neighborhoods we have, in locations far out of the way of the actual transit path. The result is that it's actually faster to take a bus much of the time then to take rail...and that's including the fact the buses have to use the heavily congested freeways. And that's if you're willing to take the personal risk...there's no way any sane white woman would commute on that rape-magnet of a train line. Why? Taxi unions...they were afraid people might take rail from LAX rather then a taxi if the rail option didn't completely suck balls.
Oh, and the 405? Yah...we're currently spending insane amounts of money to tear down and rebuild multiple bridges stretching across it, literally move mountains, not for a useful rail line... But to add one more lane each way. Like all the other lanes we've added, it'll have ZERO impact on actual traffic. -It may likely even make it worse as it has in the past as expanding freeways encourages longer commutes, resulting in more miles on the road per driver and more then offsetting the added capacity.
A "transit renaissance" my ass. Los Angeles is a shining example of how NOT to ever build a transit system. It's a rolling calamity that most likely won't ever be solved. Frankly we'll see Google self-driving cars in every garage long before we get a sane transit system. Ironically...they'll work best on our existing freeway-centric systems...eliminating the advantage of any form of mass transit. Yay?
The "release" of "Linux" you're referring to from Sep '91 was nothing more then the first draft a kernel project that itself had only started earlier that same year. Slackware was the first distribution that could reasonably be called an OS, in '93.
FreeBSD on the other hand, was built upon a linage of work first released in 1977, with internal versions dating to the early '70s, itself built upon AT&T code from even earlier. And unlike Linux we're not talking about a "release" of a draft kernel, but rather a full fledged OS.
And ports dates back to August '93, not '94.
Still, as wildly off the mark as your history in fact is, you are correct on the larger point: Linux did come before Ports (albeit just barely).
The verbiage is complete crap. Guinness from the new widget-less bottles uses pure carbon dioxide and tastes like bitter ass and has a head like soda.
They did it because it's cheaper to not add the widgets, pure and simple.
Screw Guinness, they already WAY over charge AND use smaller bottles and cans, AND the stuff they sell stateside is crap. Murphy's is FAR better, cheaper, and you get a full 16oz in a can, WITH the widget and the right gas mix for stout.
Let's assume BPA is bad. The question is, is it worse than no BPA? The reasons cans are lined with plastic are to prevent botulism and to keep the contents from eating through the cans.
How about we just don't consume "food" that can eat through a metal can?!!
Guinness took out the rocket widgets from bottles about a year or so ago, while at the same time replacing the nitrogen heavy gas mix with pure carbon dioxide.
The result is that Guinness from a bottle now tastes like complete ass and if you poor it out you'll notice the head looks much more like Coke-Cola then anything you might call stout.
The cans still have the widget and the right gas and still taste great. Or just drink Murphy's, it's a much better stout then Guinness anyway.
Obama is unquestionably far, far to the right of Ronald Reagan. That is simply reality. Name practically any policy, Obama is farther to the right on the issue then Reagan was.
Although I realize when the "center line" has been pulled so far to the right practically everything appears "left"...
windows 2000 had security, but when people defaulting use an admin account for everything stuff happens,
To make any practical use of a Windows 2000 system you needed to be admin, because practically any software available required admin to install and run correctly. Including much of MS's own non-OS software.
It didn't matter how good the OS was if MS couldn't keep its dev community in line (or even its own in-house devs in line) and code/test for use with non-admin accounts.
It was really only with Windows 7 that the culture had been shifted enough to realistically use a Windows machine without local admin rights. And there's still a crap ton of software in regular use that still pretends it's 1997.
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On the flip side MS has now gone bonkers with security...far beyond the point of practicality in many cases and end up with less secure systems as people disable/workaround the layers of muck they've added. I'm dealing with TFS currently...just the simple act of adding a user to a project (or god forbid, creating a new project) is an absolute nightmare requiring permission changes in at least 4 different systems managed by at least 9 different administrative interfaces, many of which require RDP (no remote admin)....and that's not even including the AD side. It's pretty much forcing us to circumvent it (just as Win 2000 did a decade ago) to legitimately use it.
In the end, while MUCH better then years past, MS still fundamentally doesn't grok security.
The lines can be blurry to be sure, but your definitions are incomplete and invalid. Most especially your claim that only Windows can get viruses.
Worms replicate. Trojans don't replicate. Viruses don't replicate beyond their local machine and/or attached remote filesystems. The ability to replicate or not isn't what distinguishes computer viruses from other forms. Additionally viruses don't intrinsically have the ability to infect neighboring machines w/o user intervention (or attached remote filesystems).
Worms - Replicate autonomously across a network by exploiting vulnerabilities in network services running on target machines. They deploy a copy on the target machine that again, searches the network looking for vulnerable network services on still more machines.
Trojans - Programs created explicitly to do anterior deeds while hiding its true nature by doing something useful or amusing as cover. Trojans can not "infect" other programs, they don't replicate on their own. They are distinguished by the fact they rely upon the trust of the user to run them intentionally and by the fact they were never a "legit" program to start with. They are stand-alone programs.
Viruses - Modify other programs to carry and deploy a copy of itself. The original program (eg MS Word, Quake, a PDF file, whatever) was never malicious on its own, but after being modified by a virus it becomes malicious. Beyond the local machine it spreads similar to a trojan; It still requires a user to intentionally execute the (now infected program) or load a file on a remote machine. Viruses are trojan factories, transforming good programs/files into trojans.
I still think that the 2 missing courses from any CS degree program are 1) how to debug, and 2) history of computing.
Practical software engineering is mostly about debugging. An actual course in debugging would imply that Computer Science curriculum had something to do with practical software engineering, which we're all painfully away it hasn't in the slightest.
For-profit corporations as a rule do have a singular motivation; Make more profit for their shareholders.
It's not just a motivation it's a legal requirement to maximize shareholder financial value in every (legal) way possible. They can do something else as well, but if it interferes with maximizing returns the board can be held legally liable.
So corporations are not intrinsically evil, no. What they do have is an obligation to not allow the intrinsic goodness or evilness of an action prevent them from choosing it if it maximizes value for their shareholders. And lets face it, evil choices are on the whole much more profitable then good choices, making corporate leaders legally obligated to take evil actions even if they nor their company are evil or have evil motives.
So the question is which defines a person as evil: Their actions or their motivations?
This. The parent is already +5 Insightful, but really needs to be +500.
You don't evacuate a datacenter, you abandon it. Any other plan is a dozen different kinds of stupid.
At best you trigger a self-destruct (software or better yet hardware) to whip all data so scavengers don't get to it while you're fleeing.
Hardware can be replaced easily (insure it, duh). Lives and Data can not. So already have the data backed up offsite and let the lives flee as they can at the first sign of danger w/o being hindered by insanely stupid commandments like "save the copier!!!".
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How is this functionally any different then many Android Widgets? They often display partial information and are clickable to launch a full app?
Or iOS notification numbers, which display partial information about the app while also allowing you to use the icon as a selector?
Or Photoshop file icons, which show an icon version of the current state of the file while also allowing you to use the icon as a selector?
This.
The Map App was the feature that sold me on the iPhone and got me off feature phones. The rest was fluff (at least at the time), Maps was the killer feature.
"Uptime"...has a more pointless metric ever been created?
It's very, very difficult to crash any decently mature OS at this point, reguardless of load. This means "uptime" really means "unpatched time", because for most all systems it's most accurately a measure of how infrequently updates are applied or how diligent the admins are generally. Yes, most updates to most systems won't require a reboot...but a diligent admin will bounce them anyway in most cases...if only to be sure they still restart correctly (that the startup process for both OS and services hasn't been botched, etc).
Experimentation is great, in a lab.
The Linux community (very much including Linus himself) makes the mistake of subjecting the entire user base to lab experiments. The community is a combination of bleeding edge lab experiments (mostly on the core OS side) and blatant copying (mostly on the GUI side).
So users get the best of both worlds: A half baked GUI cloned from Windows and Mac, running on top of an immature, unstable OS.
As to my experience, considering how much I get around I'm quite confident it is typical. In common hypocritical fashion, you've made the mistake of seeing your ONE fanboi filled Linux shop and generalized it to the world. I've worked with dozens of organizations large and small, with all sorts of love affairs with all different kinds of software. Yes, your Linux-only shop happens, but not very commonly. It's almost exclusively the domain of tiny startup groups filled with 20-somethings right out of college programming Ruby.
The fact is there isn't any modern Unix system from any vendor that makes for a better workstation then Windows 7, even for doing Unix-centric work. I held onto my Unix workstations longer then practically anyone I've known, and even I gave them up once Cygwin was solid.
Windows Server is still a pathetic excuse for a Server OS in practically every possible way, for which Unix still solidly holds the prize. But while any Linux system is wildly better then any Windows system for server use, it's still the worst of all Unix options. It beats Windows only because Windows is so bad, not because Linux is so good.
Mostly I compare Linux against other Unix systems, not Windows. To which even the most modern distributions (the plethora of distributions being a large part of the problem itself) can't even stand up against most other Unix systems from over a decade ago. *BSD, Solaris, HPUX, Irix.
a.out vs ELF
libc vs glibc
VM of the week
Filesystem of the week
Package system of the week
Source management via an email Inbox of patch files, seriously?
KDE vs GNOME
Does audio work yet?
etc, etc, etc.
The point is Linux, at its very heart, is a hacked up experimental prototype. Nothing is polished, nothing is built well, transitions and stability are never considered. Why bother? It's an erector set, it's built to be tinkered with. It's not built to be a final product, it's not built to be part of anything else's final product (see GPL). The fact that it has been as wildly successful in the market as it has is a frightening testimony.
But since you're focused on Windows: Frankly Windows 7 with Cygwin makes for a far better "Unix Workstation" in most every conceivable way then any Linux system ever made. By workstation I refer to a personal computer used for productive work. Office tasks sure, but the whole of software engineering very much included. Which is why you still find practically no Linux workstations at the desks of nearly any real professionals. Even the heavily Unix centric guys are running terminals from a Windows machine.
All that NIMBY stuff is just more reason why a line down the 405 makes far, far, ***FAR*** more sense then any of those asinine distraction projects.
A line down the CENTER of the 405 freeway, much like how the Gold Line was built, completely avoids all those NIMBY issues. It doesn't matter if they are valid or not, they simply don't exist when we're talking about the 405.
Grade crossing issues? There are none.
Blight? There is none (as wide as the 405 is, I'll be nearly impossible to see a rail line in the middle of it, even elevated).
Modern smartphones often can't fall off a desk without risking catastrophic results.
While riding my bike, my old Nokia phones fell out of my pocket at over 30 miles per hour onto hard asphalt. Multiple times. A few scratches, but otherwise fine. I used to drop my phones all the time...because I didn't care, I trusted they were fine with abuse. It really took a LOT to kill a Nokia phone. I think only my old original StarTac was stronger.
Using git (or any decent VCS) as the engine behind an updater system is incredibly smart and powerful. Roll your OS patches forward, backwards, merge customizations in or out, all very reliably, trackable, and managable. That isn't magic, it's just smart. A hell of a lot smarter then rolling one's own from scratch.
It always amazes me how often and fiercely the Linux crowd equates banging one's head against the wall with "understanding", "willingness to learn", "freedom", or most laughable of all, "power". It's bad ideas, half implemented, and hastily shipped off to the masses. Lather, rinse, repeat.
It's very rare to see solidly good ideas advanced in the Linux world and this is why: Moronic "If it's not hard it's not good!" fanbois trashing any smart idea that might pop its head up as quickly and vehemently as possible.
There's a new study showing off yet another newly found health benifit of drinking coffee it seems like every week. It's nearly impossible to find much of any negative science on drinking coffee.
The same can't quite be said for smoking...
When I worked in technical theater production we had a saying, "The production that runs out of coffee or donuts is the production that runs over budget.". You skimped on many thing, but you *never* let a crew run out of coffee. Ever.
Hell, as a software engineer I'm little more then a biologically refinery transforming coffee and sugar into code.
You'll find most every office on the planet provides free coffee. Many go out of their way to make sure that coffee is exceptionally high quality. Has a single one ever provided free smokes? Yah, that's what I thought.
While it's true LA has spent a fortune on "transit" in the last few decades, it still hasn't take it seriously. A "renaissance"? Not even close.
Take the 405 freeway. One of the most congested roadways on the entire planet, with both very densely populated residential areas and very densely packed businesses. It's an absurdly ideal case for commuter rail, just build an elevated track down the center from the north SF Valley down to Orange County and you'd make the single largest impact on transportation any city on the planet has ever made. ANY other effort is nothing but a distraction until and unless that is done, period.
What do we do instead? We spend massive amounts on rail projects that come and go from anywhere except where people live, work, or the bulk of our congestion happens. We setup multiple rail lines that you need to switch mid-trip to complete your commute, but make you do that switch outside...in the worst, gang-ridden neighborhoods we have, in locations far out of the way of the actual transit path. The result is that it's actually faster to take a bus much of the time then to take rail...and that's including the fact the buses have to use the heavily congested freeways. And that's if you're willing to take the personal risk...there's no way any sane white woman would commute on that rape-magnet of a train line. Why? Taxi unions...they were afraid people might take rail from LAX rather then a taxi if the rail option didn't completely suck balls.
Oh, and the 405? Yah...we're currently spending insane amounts of money to tear down and rebuild multiple bridges stretching across it, literally move mountains, not for a useful rail line... But to add one more lane each way. Like all the other lanes we've added, it'll have ZERO impact on actual traffic. -It may likely even make it worse as it has in the past as expanding freeways encourages longer commutes, resulting in more miles on the road per driver and more then offsetting the added capacity.
A "transit renaissance" my ass. Los Angeles is a shining example of how NOT to ever build a transit system. It's a rolling calamity that most likely won't ever be solved. Frankly we'll see Google self-driving cars in every garage long before we get a sane transit system. Ironically...they'll work best on our existing freeway-centric systems...eliminating the advantage of any form of mass transit. Yay?
Your memory may not be faulty, the first beta release of Slackware was in April 1993.
Welcome our new viral overlords!
The "release" of "Linux" you're referring to from Sep '91 was nothing more then the first draft a kernel project that itself had only started earlier that same year. Slackware was the first distribution that could reasonably be called an OS, in '93.
FreeBSD on the other hand, was built upon a linage of work first released in 1977, with internal versions dating to the early '70s, itself built upon AT&T code from even earlier. And unlike Linux we're not talking about a "release" of a draft kernel, but rather a full fledged OS.
And ports dates back to August '93, not '94.
Still, as wildly off the mark as your history in fact is, you are correct on the larger point: Linux did come before Ports (albeit just barely).
There, I fixed it for you. You're welcome.
The verbiage is complete crap. Guinness from the new widget-less bottles uses pure carbon dioxide and tastes like bitter ass and has a head like soda.
They did it because it's cheaper to not add the widgets, pure and simple.
Screw Guinness, they already WAY over charge AND use smaller bottles and cans, AND the stuff they sell stateside is crap. Murphy's is FAR better, cheaper, and you get a full 16oz in a can, WITH the widget and the right gas mix for stout.
How about we just don't consume "food" that can eat through a metal can?!!
Guinness took out the rocket widgets from bottles about a year or so ago, while at the same time replacing the nitrogen heavy gas mix with pure carbon dioxide.
The result is that Guinness from a bottle now tastes like complete ass and if you poor it out you'll notice the head looks much more like Coke-Cola then anything you might call stout.
The cans still have the widget and the right gas and still taste great. Or just drink Murphy's, it's a much better stout then Guinness anyway.
Your prices are old. There's a ton of drives already in the $0.50-0.70/GB range now, even after factoring in sales tax. Check newegg, tigerdirect.
Obama is unquestionably far, far to the right of Ronald Reagan. That is simply reality. Name practically any policy, Obama is farther to the right on the issue then Reagan was.
Although I realize when the "center line" has been pulled so far to the right practically everything appears "left"...
To make any practical use of a Windows 2000 system you needed to be admin, because practically any software available required admin to install and run correctly. Including much of MS's own non-OS software.
It didn't matter how good the OS was if MS couldn't keep its dev community in line (or even its own in-house devs in line) and code/test for use with non-admin accounts.
It was really only with Windows 7 that the culture had been shifted enough to realistically use a Windows machine without local admin rights. And there's still a crap ton of software in regular use that still pretends it's 1997.
--
On the flip side MS has now gone bonkers with security...far beyond the point of practicality in many cases and end up with less secure systems as people disable/workaround the layers of muck they've added. I'm dealing with TFS currently...just the simple act of adding a user to a project (or god forbid, creating a new project) is an absolute nightmare requiring permission changes in at least 4 different systems managed by at least 9 different administrative interfaces, many of which require RDP (no remote admin)....and that's not even including the AD side. It's pretty much forcing us to circumvent it (just as Win 2000 did a decade ago) to legitimately use it.
In the end, while MUCH better then years past, MS still fundamentally doesn't grok security.
The lines can be blurry to be sure, but your definitions are incomplete and invalid. Most especially your claim that only Windows can get viruses.
Worms replicate. Trojans don't replicate. Viruses don't replicate beyond their local machine and/or attached remote filesystems. The ability to replicate or not isn't what distinguishes computer viruses from other forms. Additionally viruses don't intrinsically have the ability to infect neighboring machines w/o user intervention (or attached remote filesystems).
Worms - Replicate autonomously across a network by exploiting vulnerabilities in network services running on target machines. They deploy a copy on the target machine that again, searches the network looking for vulnerable network services on still more machines.
Trojans - Programs created explicitly to do anterior deeds while hiding its true nature by doing something useful or amusing as cover. Trojans can not "infect" other programs, they don't replicate on their own. They are distinguished by the fact they rely upon the trust of the user to run them intentionally and by the fact they were never a "legit" program to start with. They are stand-alone programs.
Viruses - Modify other programs to carry and deploy a copy of itself. The original program (eg MS Word, Quake, a PDF file, whatever) was never malicious on its own, but after being modified by a virus it becomes malicious. Beyond the local machine it spreads similar to a trojan; It still requires a user to intentionally execute the (now infected program) or load a file on a remote machine. Viruses are trojan factories, transforming good programs/files into trojans.
Malware - Catch-all term for all of the above.
Practical software engineering is mostly about debugging. An actual course in debugging would imply that Computer Science curriculum had something to do with practical software engineering, which we're all painfully away it hasn't in the slightest.
For-profit corporations as a rule do have a singular motivation; Make more profit for their shareholders.
It's not just a motivation it's a legal requirement to maximize shareholder financial value in every (legal) way possible. They can do something else as well, but if it interferes with maximizing returns the board can be held legally liable.
So corporations are not intrinsically evil, no. What they do have is an obligation to not allow the intrinsic goodness or evilness of an action prevent them from choosing it if it maximizes value for their shareholders. And lets face it, evil choices are on the whole much more profitable then good choices, making corporate leaders legally obligated to take evil actions even if they nor their company are evil or have evil motives.
So the question is which defines a person as evil: Their actions or their motivations?
Then they've already failed.
Get in your car, leave. When you get somewhere safe, start updating your resume and LinkedIn profile.
There are few good reasons to risk your own life. The company's copier just isn't one of them.
This. The parent is already +5 Insightful, but really needs to be +500.
You don't evacuate a datacenter, you abandon it. Any other plan is a dozen different kinds of stupid.
At best you trigger a self-destruct (software or better yet hardware) to whip all data so scavengers don't get to it while you're fleeing.
Hardware can be replaced easily (insure it, duh). Lives and Data can not. So already have the data backed up offsite and let the lives flee as they can at the first sign of danger w/o being hindered by insanely stupid commandments like "save the copier!!!".