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GeneralRe: Software is crammed full of bugs. This 'exciting' project could banish most of them Pin
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GeneralRe: Software is crammed full of bugs. This 'exciting' project could banish most of them Pin
Richard Deeming25-Jan-22 22:00
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NewsThe case for backing up source code Pin
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Gary Wheeler26-Jan-22 6:49
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GeneralRe: The case for backing up source code Pin
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GeneralRe: The case for backing up source code Pin
Gary Wheeler28-Jan-22 9:15
Gary Wheeler28-Jan-22 9:15 
My best failure-to-backup story is fairly old. Back in the late 80's my employer laid everyone off, then hired me back as a contractor to finish up the contract I was working on. I took their MicroVAX home along with its 300MB hard drive (which weighed around 75 pounds).

When I finished the job and I was ready to ship the computer to them across the country, I told them they needed to place a DEC service call first. The backup tape drive on the machine wasn't working, so there wasn't any backup of the rather FORTRAN large simulation I had been writing. They refused to pay for the service call, and told me to just ship it.

I packed up the machine. The 300MB hard drive was packed into its original shipping container which was a form-fitting dense foam block, inside an eight-ply cardboard box, inside dense foam spacers, inside an eight-ply shipping box.

When the drive arrived in California, there were dents in the drive enclosure. They finally got the shipper to admit that it had been dropped from a forklift which then ran into the side of the box. They tried taking it to several data recovery services, all of which refused the job.

When they called me up, I offered them the only backup I was capable of making before I shipped the machine: a paper listing of slightly over 2,000 pages. I took it to Kinko who copied it and then shipped it to them. The last I heard, they hired a secretarial firm to type the beast back in. They never got it working.
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NewsWhich programming paradigm gives the most expressive code? Pin
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NewsSurvey says developers are definitely not interested in crypto Or NFTs Pin
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