In the video (yes, I watched everything) they said you should install it 2 days before your party starts.

That cracked me up. I guess it takes 2 days to install :-) The party will not go smoothly if guests are arriving and the host is still trying to get Windows 7 installed.

Yeah, I remember Beckham played Achilles in that movie also starring Eric Bana ...

Bjorn Lynne.

He's one of my favourites - he's an accomplished artist with songs and online sales and he also runs a music licensing business with, IMHO, fair terms for the artists.

He didn't pay me anything to promote him just then. Internet advertising isn't always expensive.

I'm not even going to bother to offer a link to his site, but I'll bet dollars to donuts he makes money off this post.

Dr. McNinja ?

No, what it means is that understanding Unix is a prerequisite for good OS design. It doesn't mean that nothing's ever been done better, but if you don't understand the Unix principles, good luck designing something better.

+1 Google.

Three Mobile Prepaid Broadband in Australia does this.

Upon connecting, a prepaid user gets an RFC1918 address. All TCP traffic is NAT'ed. All DNS requests are not NAT'ed, they are proxied through three's caching nameserver.

The problem with that is it causes hell for any caching nameserver at the client end. The client's nameserver expects to talk to the authoritative nameservers for whatever domain it looks up. It sends requests with the RD (Recursion Desired) bit cleared, because an authoritative nameserver does not need to use recursion to look up a name.

Three's proxy nameserver sees the cleared RD bit and, if the requested data is not already in the cache, returns an NXDOMAIN error to the client. It makes the client unable to resolve most domain names.

I hope the trial covers all of Scientology's scam - the impossible claims, the hard sell tactics, the cult attention, the brainwashing, addiction, their ruthless behaviour toward their enemies, the blackmail and infiltration ... this is an evil organisation.

Fortunately I am completely invisible to them because all they see on their screens is "elron****".

It sounds like they're not keen to spend time recovering it - although a lot of the site could presumably be recovered from google and archive.org and users' computers (particularly downloadable files).

I can't say I'm surprised, really. They couldn't be arsed to spend a little time to make multiple backups and now they can't be arsed to spend a lot of time to recover the deleted data.

No, the data was safe against only disk failure on the primary machine. Any number of different problems could have wiped out both copies including but not limited to data corruption or operator error.

I don't know if the two servers were physically close to each other but if they were then there are additional risks including electrical problems, theft and physical destruction.

Actually you use rdiff-backup for that kind of thing. It uses the rsync algorithm, but stores additional metadata to allow recovery of the filesystem state from previous backups as well as the latest backup.

If you just want the latest back you can restore with plain old rsync but if you want a previous backup you can use the appropriate rdiff-backup option.

There's another you in an alternate universe who did, in fact, RTFA.

Oh how I wish I was there.