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Top Ten Data Disasters
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| According the BBC website's Technology page, these are the top ten data disasters:
TOP 10 DATA DISASTERS
1 Laptop shot in anger
2 PC thrown out the window to destroy evidence before police arrived
3 Laptop fell off a moped and was run over by lorry
4 Laptop dropped in bath while doing company accounts
5 Stolen PCs rescued after three weeks in a river
6 Red wine spilt on laptop over dinner
7 Server rescued after running unchecked 24/7 for years under layers of dust and dirt
8 Computer thrown against a wall
9 Latte-covered laptop rescued
10 Laptop left on car roof as owner drives off
Got any other disasters like that?
Hippo
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| ruscorp 2003-10-16, 3:01 pm |
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Originally posted by Hippo
3 Laptop fell off a moped and was run over by lorry
If Lorry is still as big as I remembered, that laptop is garbage. 
Someone tell that girl about Atkins! | |
| jimbo2002 2003-10-16, 4:18 pm |
| I once spilt beer all over a laptop. That was a disaster, it was my favourite beer and I was enjoying it. | |
| peterd 2003-10-17, 3:54 am |
| Hi Guys,
I'd been working for a new company in London for about a month and I'd backed-up everything except the bosses laptop. Despite asking to borrow it several times he was always too busy so I just hadn't done it.
So one day he went out to his car, placed the laptop on the ground while he unlocked the door, hopped in and drove off. He was about 20 miles away before he noticed and it was gone when he got back.
On another occasion a friend bought one of the new electronic note-pad things (about 8 years ago) to replace his filofax. He transferred years worth of data to it and then threw his filofax in the bin.
A few days later the new gadget had a memory bug that wiped out all of his data...
Regards
Peter | |
| MistyRing 2003-10-17, 8:52 am |
| Winter of 95. Temp dropped to -20 over the weekend. water tank in roof ruptured. servers didn't like their new environment very much!  |
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