A fun story from the University I am currently attending(Norwegian University of Science and Technology).
We were running student projects of a linux server - lots of users, lots of important data. Now, the guys admining the server of course had a nighlty backup script running every night sending data to a second hardrive.
One day, the main harddrive crashed - complete wipeout. Wasnt possible to read anything of the disk. The admin people then decided to restore the data from the backup - but they couldnt get the backup drive to respond. After some time trying they went to have a look in the HD rack, and then they discovered that the backup drive they had been sending data to every night for a year wasnt there! Nobody had acctually installed it!
I can only imagine their faces when they discovered that one:=)
Hehe maybe a bit harsh? How should people know better... Not everybody has the time to read forums such as Slashdot or keep themselves up-to-date. But, I agree, a whole lot of wild installing going on...
"Oh look at the qute purple monkey making qute faces... hey - why is my system so slow?"
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A fun story from the University I am currently attending(Norwegian University of Science and Technology). We were running student projects of a linux server - lots of users, lots of important data. Now, the guys admining the server of course had a nighlty backup script running every night sending data to a second hardrive. One day, the main harddrive crashed - complete wipeout. Wasnt possible to read anything of the disk. The admin people then decided to restore the data from the backup - but they couldnt get the backup drive to respond. After some time trying they went to have a look in the HD rack, and then they discovered that the backup drive they had been sending data to every night for a year wasnt there! Nobody had acctually installed it! I can only imagine their faces when they discovered that one :=)
Or Opera... Dont forget Opera :)
Hehe maybe a bit harsh? How should people know better... Not everybody has the time to read forums such as Slashdot or keep themselves up-to-date. But, I agree, a whole lot of wild installing going on... "Oh look at the qute purple monkey making qute faces... hey - why is my system so slow?"