Wednesday, December 7th, 2005, 4:58 am
Funny Data Loss Disasters
A single slide from my talk on data recovery (XHTML)
Below is a snippet from an amusing BBC article.
One incident involved a dog that used a USB flash drive as a chew toy and almost ate all its owner’s data.
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But top of the list is an old laptop containing key company data that was found filled with cockroach corpses.
It seems as though computer disasters and Darwin awards are becoming a golden source of joy to the computer literate. This could leverage tentions. People should never be humiliated for being unfamiliar with technology, but then again, this is a blog…
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