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Oops! Techie wipes out $38 billion fund
by hayao | March 23, 2007 at 12:02 am | 578 views | 2 comments
Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke
accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk
drive containing an account worth $38 billion.
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March 23, 2007 at 12:02 am by hayao, 578 views, 2 comments
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at 00:11 on March 23rd, 2007
This must come as a grim warning to everyone. Just imagine how much would have to be spent for the human resource, energy and many other factors just recovering and redoing all the tons of works that poof! This is a lesson for everyone, for corporates, for organizations and for every single user of our much-glorified technological boom. Safety nets must be addressed. Proper training too will help but would not always be the key solution because as the old saying goes: to err is human.
This story needs further followup as we are all witness to this big, big disaster that may just be waiting to happen in our premises.
at 17:33 on March 23rd, 2007
Right you are, hayao! "Backup" isn't just the name of the dog in Veronica Mars.. if it's important, make a copy. Keep it safe. Home users, back up your user folders. Keep a bootable external hard drive if you can; it's easier to set up than it sounds-- if you don't know how to do this yet then you probably know someone who does, and then you can lord it over people at cocktail parties.