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markrlondon10-Mar-21 11:22

markrlondon

10-Mar-21 11:22

Eek! The cloud is turning into a cloud...

Backup your cloud data to... somewhere else.

Cp-Coder10-Mar-21 11:37

Cp-Coder

10-Mar-21 11:37

I have a deep seated mistrust in anything to do with the cloud. Nothing of any importance is stored there! Unsure | :~

Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

glennPattonWork310-Mar-21 20:58

glennPattonWork3

10-Mar-21 20:58

I with you, I like to keep a copy of what is current on my local PC. That way if something breaks (yes I'm looking at you TeamCenter!) you can carry on. For backups OneDive, cloud is good but anything else is a bit dodgy in my opinon. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Gary R. Wheeler11-Mar-21 14:32

Gary R. Wheeler

11-Mar-21 14:32

Welcome to my paranoia. Our corporate IT department intensely dislikes the fact that I control three servers that are on the company domain, yet not under their administration. The three machines back up to each other, in addition to an external hard drive.

Our group has never had a critical data loss in the last 20 years. We have never had a malware incursion in that same time. The same cannot be said of corporate IT.

Software Zen: delete this;

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Rage10-Mar-21 19:09

Rage

10-Mar-21 19:09

I live just a bunch of km away from this data center. Interestingly, the fire extinguishing system was made with water sprinklers, instead of inert gas or ... water clouds, that would have far less damaged the servers. I guess the firemen damaged more than the fire itself.

Daniel Pfeffer10-Mar-21 19:29

Daniel Pfeffer

10-Mar-21 19:29

Rage wrote:
instead of inert gas

The BOFH has brought disrepute on the use of Halon for extinguishing fires... Smile | :)

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Nelek10-Mar-21 20:09

10-Mar-21 20:09

You can still use other gases to extinguish fire

M.D.V.

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Daniel Pfeffer10-Mar-21 21:15

Daniel Pfeffer

10-Mar-21 21:15

The BOFH - the Bastard Operator From Hell

(Not an official organization of any type...)

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.

Nelek10-Mar-21 23:13

10-Mar-21 23:13

I was answering the Halon bit Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

but thanks for clarification... I didn't know what BOFH meant Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

M.D.V.

Dan Neely11-Mar-21 2:46

Dan Neely

11-Mar-21 2:46

Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
The BOFH has brought disrepute on the use of Halon for extinguishing fires...

OTOH he's greatly developed the use of Halon for extinguishing management and sales. Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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RickZeeland10-Mar-21 19:31

RickZeeland

10-Mar-21 19:31

Quote:
Impacted clients have been urged to turn to backups to minimize downtime and disruption.

On Firebase[^] of course!

Nelek10-Mar-21 20:07

10-Mar-21 20:07

Cp-Coder wrote:
What if the cloud was your backup?

As long as you haven't lost your live system, then you can still do a new backup Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

The problem comes when your live system and your backup were in the cloud... then you are probably screwed

M.D.V.

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Rage10-Mar-21 21:31

Rage

10-Mar-21 21:31

Yeah, apparently, this is what happened to Rust players[^].

Nelek10-Mar-21 23:10

10-Mar-21 23:10

How was it in the JSOP's thread the other day about the "I told you so"? Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

M.D.V.

aaaaaah! I shot myself in the foot

Dan Neely11-Mar-21 2:42

Dan Neely

11-Mar-21 2:42

I'm hearing claims that OVH's primary DR for the completely destroyed building was the damaged one immediately adjacent to it.

I really hope that's not correct; because if it is true... OMG | :OMG:

honey the codewitch10-Mar-21 5:55

honey the codewitch

10-Mar-21 5:55

I've been building a tiny graphics library for IoT devices to supplant Adafruit's offering which is huge, especially if you want jpeg loading support, and I think might be tied to the Arduino framework.

I've been working on JPEG decompression all morning with the idea that I would take a std::istream and a std::ostream in jpeg::convert(). (There is no load() function because there's no memory for that on these devices)

Come to find out, JPEG decompression returns a series of rectangles - i'm not sure of the dispersal/locality of them yet - but I can't produce for example, a 16-bit color depth bitmap stream (which expects pixels left to right, top to bottom) with something that takes rectangles without allocating enough memory (depending on the locality) to hold much, if not all of the buffer.

*headdesk*
*headdesk*
*headdesk*

I've already got 80% of it implemented and I'm asking myself how I got that far without realizing this fairly obvious problem.

Dead | X|

Real programmers use butterflies

Slacker00710-Mar-21 6:05

Slacker007

10-Mar-21 6:05

Read the title and I thought you actually shot your foot off.

Glad you are alright. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Rick York10-Mar-21 6:14

Rick York

10-Mar-21 6:14

FWIW, that's a side-effect of how the image is processed. It isn't scanned left-to-right, top-to-bottom. It is scanned in a diagonal traversal pattern and that results in the rectangular sections that you saw. That scanning pattern results in better compression of the data than plain, old, horizontal or vertical scanning.

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honey the codewitch10-Mar-21 6:16

honey the codewitch

10-Mar-21 6:16

Yeah, and since I was adapting the decompression algorithm from some other code, I should have put two and two together well before I did, hence my frustration.

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User 1505687910-Mar-21 6:25

User 15056879

10-Mar-21 6:25

But not your deputy Poke tongue | ;-P

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