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____/ Richard Rasker on Sunday 11 Oct 2009 17:24 : \____
>
> http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/?category.id=Sidekick
>
> "Dear valued T-Mobile Sidekick customers:
> T-Mobile and the Sidekick data services provider, Danger, a subsidiary of
> Microsoft, are reaching out to express our apologies regarding the recent
> Sidekick data service disruption.
> ...
> Regrettably, based on Microsoft/Danger's latest recovery assessment of
> their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on
> your device - such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos -
> that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a
> result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger."
>
> And oh, there's this warning too:
>
> "Sidekick customers, during this service disruption, please DO NOT remove
> your battery, reset your Sidekick, or allow it to lose power."
>
> Are they saying that this Sidekick thing stores valuable information like
> this in volatile *RAM*?! Sheesh ... what utter crap.
>
> And Wintrolls still wonder why I consider Microsoft incompetent when it
> comes to designing reliable stuff.
They got the facts.
> Anyway, I've always wondered why this "cloud computing" is hyped. It depends
> on too many factors outside the users' control to be dependable for any
> serious application -- and the above is only one example how things can
> (and will) go horribly wrong.
There's no such thing as a 'cloud'. It's just a new name for a
pile of servers with data. :-)
- --
~~ Best of wishes
To sysadmin or not to sysadmin... that is the question, whether tis nobler
in the minde to suffer the slings and arrowes of outragious fortune, or
climb to the top of the building with a fucking high-power rifle and scope.
- -- Greg "Twotone" Spiegelberg
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