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So a few years back I wanted to participate in some annual event, a midsummer night walk.
Registered on the website, something went wrong, and suddenly I joined a team on the other side of the country.
Back then I could also change the names and emails of the group members, people I didn't know and that I joined by accident   
For some reason I lost my password and requested a new one. They sent me my own password in an email...
So accounts are publicly editable (that's a whole new level of security breach) and passwords are stored unencrypted (or at least an easily reversible encryption).
So now, a few years later, I want to participate again.
Went to the website, requested my password (that I changed to something I couldn't remember, just like the rest of my info) and they sent me an email. Except I never got the email.
So I just created a new account, requested a new password again (just to check if they fixed it) and now my old password is invalid, but they also haven't sent me an email.
Good job, within five minutes after registering I'm locked out again
What the hell are these "developers" doing? 
Seriously, my grandma could've done a better job and she only just learned how to open Google.
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Sander Rossel wrote: What the hell are these "developers" doing?
Posting their rubbish code in QA and then ignoring every piece of advice they are given.
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Have you ever considered the possibility that maybe the people in QA are the smarter ones?
At least they know how to subscribe to a website, find the correct forum, and post a question.
A scary thought...
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Sander Rossel wrote: maybe the people in QA are the smarter ones
Nooooo ...
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I tend to think of them as the ones where their mates typed in the CP URL in an attempt to get rid of them for a while...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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These people have mates? THEY MATE!?
Things are worse than I thought 
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No, no - no need to panic. They are trying to mate by posting questions on the AnneSummers website trying to get help with the complicated bits, like trouser removal... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sander Rossel wrote: they know how to subscribe to a website, find the correct forum, and post a question.
I disagree.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Sander Rossel wrote: What the hell are these "developers" doing?
They're busy working on the login code for your bank.
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"Many a true word is spoken in jest..."
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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WTF?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Sander Rossel wrote: What the hell are these "developers" doing?
Walking, not running or flying.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Perhaps they are cleverly confusing the competition of their local walkers team ? ...
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Why aren't you telling us the web site? It's publicly available right so there's no harm in telling.
Are you sure this isn't a web site set up to get people to join specifically so they can hack the members?
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raddevus wrote: Why aren't you telling us the web site?
Because my information is on it, the less people know about the website the better
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That's funny.
If only Facebook were that way. 
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Hello,
I have about 5 TB of photos and videos, plus some music and lots of code, programs, etc..
I have dropbox and onedrive, and use them to store my documents and share programming bits and pieces, but not much more, as my 5 TB of photos reside on a QNAP NAS.
Until now I was using SOS Online Backup to make a full backup of my main PC and the QNAP NAS for disaster recovery, you know, the house is on fire, full melt-down, etc.. I have USB external HDD where I regularly backup stuff, but those external HDDs still reside at home. Now, SOS Online Backup decided not to offer unlimited backup anymore, and the 5 TB tier would be thousands of dollars, what service can you recommend?
I used in the past CrashPlan, but I found it very buggy and had to map/remap the folders on the NAS all the time for CrashPlan to see them and then hope they get backed-up.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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As a side question, do you ever actually look at the gb of photo's (I assume the tb is from movies etc) that you have accumulated over the years.
I have many gb of travel and family photos and really don't actually do anything with them. The wife who is a prolific snapper probably does not even know how to find them on the computer.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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good point. Out of the 5 TB, about 3.8 TB are only photos. I scanned two generations (family was very prolific shooting film ) and have gone full digital since 2004. I go on trips just to take photos and so do other members of the family.
Have them all neatly catalogued in Lightroom, with proper tags and keywords.
Don't look at the photos every day, or every week, but just want to know that if the computer, the NAS and all the HDD were to go, in a disaster, I can still recover the stuff.
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Carbonite is still unlimited. I use them and it works very well.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Have you had to do a major recovery from a Carbonite backup? I used the program for a couple of years, and don't recall any problems with backing up, but two independent and relatively small restores to recover earlier versions of some program source were glacially slow, to the extent that it looked as if it would take days to recover from a major crash. I have changed to CrashPlan Pro. Backup is at least equally efficient, and restores are very fast. I have seen more backup glitches than with Carbonite, and you have to keep an eye on the system (which they make very easy), but their support is among the best for any of my major utilities - the techs are knowledgeable and polite, and do not assume that the user is an idiot!
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Yes I did once have to do a major restore with Carbonite.
The speed was limited by the speed of my internet connection, but since I have cable broadband, that wasn't bad.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I, too, have a good cable connection, but the restore speed I experienced represented a small fraction of its capacity. YMMV.
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If you have a trusted friend/relative living within reasonable driving distance, why not buy an additional 5TB disk for your photos, and store it with them? Whenever you visit them, take the latest disk over to their house, and swap it with the one already there.
This is what I do with the data from my genealogical research; so far, I haven't needed to use the backup, but it's there if I need it.
(I'm assuming that you are not a professional photographer, i.e. you don't have massive amounts of new photos every month.)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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3 hard drives
1: NAS (actually a mirror RAID), only connected during backups.
2. On the shelf, backup from NAS
3. Off site or safe.
Rotate 2 and 3.
Never leave backup devices connected full time, even cloud if they are mapped.
Helped 2 clients through cryptolocker. Both had air separated backups, minimal data lost. One required rebuild of server (file and Exchange), the other was data restore only. Current NAS only accepts data from limited number of IP addresses and users (administrators). All important systems are now virtual, easy to backup (2x a month) and keep copies off line.
Your are not paranoid, they really are out to get you. 
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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