Comment Re:Heh. (Score 1) 71
Test Drive 2.... the DUEL!
Comment Yes I am (Score 1) 263
Yes it does
Scientology Charged With Slavery, Human Trafficking 802
eldavojohn writes "A formal complaint was filed in California (caged PDF) last week by John Lindstein naming David Miscavige and the Church of Scientology International as defendants. Lindstein claims that for sixteen years (from age 8) he was forced to work as a slave at Gold Base, a secret CoS site run by Golden Era Productions with 'razor wire, security guard patrols, surveillance posts, and three roll calls each day.' The pay was $50 a week. The allegations include 'Violations of wage and hour laws as well as unfair/illegal business practices actionable under California B&P 17200 Et. Seq.' and a complaint under the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution, which abolished slavery. Members of the group Anonymous praised the summons."
Comment Or any other non-windows system (Score 1) 736
I switched to Linux a few years back and do the same routine. "I don't use Outlook so I don't really can tell. Sorry". But then they get all clever and say "Here, let me show you" and grab my mouse (which is left handed for starters) and go "...errr... your Windows looks strange". And I go "Strange, or better?" and they leave confused and call the real PC-support.
Comment E.T phone home! (Score 2, Funny) 69
Yeah. Now we can ditch the Speak'n'Spell when we want to phone home.
Comment It is Ogg, not OGG! (Score 1) 567
And title would be better if it said "1/3 of 16 people cannot tell Vorbis from AAC".
Duh!
Comment This is how I do it (Score 2, Interesting) 283
I have a separate locks-table with lock_id, id of the other record and timestamp. When a user brings up the record it is read only. He have to click Edit to begin editing and thus requiring a lock. This is where the lock table is checked. If there are no locks a lock entry is inserted and its lock_id is propagated to the edit form. Upon saving one checks that it is the same lock id, saves and removes lock. If a user tries to edit a locked record one can give him the option of either wait, or override if the users credentials allow it. He then get a new lock id. The other user either get an error message when saving stating that another one override his edit or some AJAX controller periodically checks the lock and takes action if it disappears. If the user just closes the edit form, forgets about it one can expire the lock by deleting old locks.
Comment Multiple revisions and off-site mirror (Score 1) 611
Here's what I do.
Nightly (my data do not change that frequently) I backup important directories to another drive (used to be internal but is now an external 1TB disk). I have set rdiff-backup to keep 30 days worth of backwards diffs. I weekly mirror the latest copy to an off-site disk which happens to be connected to my workstation at work as they don't mind. I do not mirror the backwards diffs that rdiff-backup use to get old revisions of files.
This gives me screwup protection up to 30 days and theft/fire protection of the current data. The disk at work is encrypted. I thought of encrypting the external 1TB disk at home too but the disk of not being able to restore the primary backup outweighs the protection from datatheft if the disk should be stolen in a break-in.
No matter what backup software or script you use to backup your files see to it that you can go back at least a couple of revisions to be able to recover from the most common source of data corruption... you.
Disks are pretty cheap these days. Some might argue that the space needed for backups are too much, as much as the data you are backing up. Yes it often does but it's worth it. Once you have lost a great amount of files in a screwup or disk failure you gladly pay the price for an extra disk.
Now if I only could find a very user-friendly backup software for Windows that gives rdiff-backup functionality and is also wallet-friendly I could convince my father to start backing up his data.
