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I feel for the people who were victimized.
It is devastating.
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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It has happened out in the colonies too. (Sorry can't find a link.) However I have personal experience of the other side of the coin.
Wife's 2G prepaid had to go, 2G networks were shutting down.
I have a multi-device account with a different telco/ISP. So buy a cheap new handset, transfer the number to my a/c. Easy?
NO ELEPHANTING WAY!!!!
Call centre op (old telco): You have to go into a shopfront with both IDs. Yeah, fair enough.
Next time we're both within cooee of a shopfront, rock up. NO, you have to do it online. Oh, and you need the PUK. Really? the phone was over 15 years old, no way is that scrap of paper still on the planet.
Long story short (not mentioning extra BP meds) $2 prepaid SIM. new number. Only immediate family know her number anyway, plus one other. It's my firefighter NOK number.
And a telco moved several slots up my sh!t list.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: no way is that scrap of paper still on the planet.
You have things that leave the planet after a certain time? How do they do that and where do they go?
I'm asking because I'm still looking for a ride home. 
The user can't update the up: we update it for them (Choice in the CP poll)
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CodeWraith wrote: I'm asking because I'm still looking for a ride home.
Don't forget your towel
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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He's going to need an Electronic Thumb first!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I always have it with me, just in case.
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Hi all,
Just finished watching it.
Loved it.
9 over 10.
As it seems this was not enough explanatory (see @Vunic post)... 
I can say the Hand, Alexandra (Sigourney Weaver) and Madame Gao are wonderful, Daredevil and Jessica Jones look amazing and two more characters (one male and one female) are very very nice too.
Shorter than the usual series having now only 8 chapters it has improved the rythm.
Slow at the beginning, but perfect at the middle till the end.
Some easter eggs as always in Marvel flicks.
Nice how the characters are depicted.
I liked the end (important hearing the last name it's heard to foresee what will happen next).
If you've watched the previous series (daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist) you'll enjoy this one.
Oh, and now that I remember, wait after the last episode...
modified 23-Aug-17 14:18pm.
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I cannot begin to tell you how many quarters I put into that arcade game.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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And if you fire up MAME[^] MAME[^] and can try it as often as you like, you will find it too easy and a bit dull.
Edit: Sorry for the wrong link. I'm so used to reading stuff in multiple languages that I don't always notice it.
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Thanks for the detailed review. 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Don't be sarcastic. Since antique times this style is called 'laconic'.
The user can't update the up: we update it for them (Choice in the CP poll)
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I felt it was good but Iron fist gets annoying as he's too holier then thou and it's always I'm the iron fist so you should be impressed and worship me.
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Yes Michael, Iron Fist is the poorest character, it is a pity he still don't know exactly the limits of his powers and the fact he only knows he is special but not why.
Matt/DD and Jessica are the best IMHO.
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Crashplan has announced that it is exiting the home backup market.
https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/consumer/nextsteps/
They are trying to transition their customer base to Carbonite. I wanted to see if there were other solutions that people out there use and whole-heartedly recommend.
(I looked back on the forum and Crashplan seemed the prior favorite.)
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David Carta wrote: I wanted to see if there were other solutions that people out there use and whole-heartedly recommend
I whole-heartedly recommend not giving your data to third-party entities. There's a good example as to why not, right here.
I also whole-heartedly recommend buying hard drives in sets of 4: One live, one offline backup, one offsite backup, one spare ready to go at a moment's notice. Once you figure the drives are too small for your regular backups, congratulations--you now have enough drives to recycle them into a RAID5 setup.
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dandy72 wrote: you now have enough drives to recycle them into a RAID5 setup.
Which is not an offline back-up nor an offsite back-up - congratulations you now need to buy a bunch more hardware and/or services! 
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It was inferred that yes, once your drives are too small for your ever-increasing backup, you do have to buy a new set.
And I wasn't suggesting to use the RAID for a backup. I was suggesting the spare drives can now be used for a RAID. In my case, that means more storage for my NAS, or for my VM host.
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To each his own, but I wholeheartedly disagree with this advice. Drives easily fail, are lost, or get stolen, and few people take the necessary steps to ensure those scenarios aren't disastrous through proper security and encryption practices. It's also, frankly, horribly inefficient and pretty easy to screw yourself over ... as I believe someone described here in the past few days. Companies come and go (always have, always will) and I don't consider it a reason to live like a luddite.
I'm currently in this boat as well; I've been relying on CrashPlan for many years to back up multiple machines here and for members of my family. I've also been wanting to switch from CrashPlan for a while anyway thanks to their horrific speeds and bad UI. From the limited research I've done so far, we're pretty screwed. Most of the better cloud backup providers all offer good encryption and unlimited storage, but they box you into a single PC (or, worse, a single drive!) without having to pay through the teeth for a small business plan.
Tom's updated their comparison yesterday thanks to CrashPlan's announcement
here[^]. I'm intending to take a more serious look at Backblaze this week.
I'm starting to resign myself to the likely fact that I'm going to end up paying more money than I would prefer. I'm hoping others can share their own experiences with these providers ...
Jon
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jonmbutler wrote: To each his own, but I wholeheartedly disagree with this advice.
Great! I was simply relating what works for me, and I'm aware there's no one-size-fits-all solution. Feel free to adopt something else.
jonmbutler wrote: Drives easily fail
That's why I get that extra one, ready to go at a moment's notice.
jonmbutler wrote: are lost
That's a user problem. If a user can't keep track of a few drives, he's probably got bigger problems in his life anyway.
jonmbutler wrote: or get stolen
All my drives using whole-disk encryption. I don't consider a drive's monetary value to be a concern, at least compared with the data that's on it.
jonmbutler wrote: few people take the necessary steps to ensure those scenarios aren't disastrous
What those people do is their choice. Not doing something is also a choice. I make mine based on the value I put on my data.
jonmbutler wrote: a reason to live like a luddite.
Well, this luddite has a pretty slow internet connection, so if I need complete recovery from a bad enough disaster, an online backup is simply impractical.
My strategy hasn't failed me since I've adopted it, and short of a large enough meteorite hitting somewhere between my house and my off-site location (in which case I probably won't care about any backup), I feel I've got most scenarios covered. For the drives still sitting next to me, being physically disconnected means no hacker can get to it, no virus can encrypt it, and the backup drives themselves are all encrypted, so good luck to thieves.
Meanwhile, the only thing protecting you from a hacker logging into your cloud provider account and deleting your backup and its entire history is the strength of your password and--worse--how much effort your provider puts into securing its entire credentials database. Past history doesn't inspire confidence. You may feel differently.
Frankly, boiling it down to the essentials, I see this as little more than a choice between convenience, and taking things into your own hands. I have nobody to blame but myself for my own failings--I see this as a good thing. Not so with a third party.
In the end, all suggestions are valid. We're here to exchange ideas, which is what the original poster what soliciting. I'm just pointing out what I think are the pros and cons of your response, which I assume is fair game.
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dandy72 wrote: In the end, all suggestions are valid. We're here to exchange ideas, which is what the original poster what soliciting. I'm just pointing out what I think are the pros and cons of your response, which I assume is fair game.
Fair enough -- and my apologies for coming across as a jerk. Definitely wasn't my intention! I should drink more coffee before jumping on here 
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S'all good Jon. I didn't really read it this way. If I sound like I'm very much on the defensive, it's probably because it took me a long time to come up with what works best for me. I actually wished I had the trust in some of the online solutions--I just feel they're not there yet.
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I agree. I have over 40 TB of hard disks at home with thousands and thousands of photo, audio, home video and miscellaneous other files on them. Although I lose on average about 2 TB per year due to disk failure (and one of my file servers crashed irredeemably), I have not yet permanently lost a single file and I can retrieve any file within seconds.
I was going to start having off-line disks to save power but they now all shut down between actual usage anyway so that is no longer necessary. I do still make (multiple) CD copies of critical files and scans of important documents just in case of flooding. A fire could still brook disaster so I am putting some of those CDs in a safety deposit box.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: I was going to start having off-line disks to save power but they now all shut down between actual usage anyway so that is no longer necessary
My only concern with that is ransomware. If it's connected, it can be accessed and thus encrypted before you realize it.
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I used to use multiple identical hard drives and did a complete image of the drive to a couple of them. Worked well too - no need to spend hours uploading files and everything was local.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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