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Digital media devices have influenced the course of human history since the 1940’s. New Scientist brings together a gallery featuring historically important computers from the past — from a 1943 Colossus that helped shorten World War II by a few months, to a 1999 Google server that helped unleash the Long Tail of human knowledge. [Read more…]
Originally posted on September 22, 2009 @ 9:53 am
If your business relies on technology, then it’s essential that you recognize how vital having sound systems of backup will be in the long run. If you have spent a lot of time, money, or energy on an idea and all of that effort is represented in a digital or virtual format, then what happens if your only source of that information gets damaged, lost, or corrupted? It can be a catastrophic failure. That’s why, for every critical piece of data that you have, there should be multiple copies of it across various sets of media.
You can look at your system of backups from a few different perspectives. First of all, any creative work that you have needs to be in more than one place and preferably should be in at least three. There are many different automated systems that can help you do this. Second, you need to back up your primary business server. Yes, you already have a backup system for your creative work, but you also need a backup system for all of your data and infrastructure. Lastly, if you want to make sure you have current backups for everything, then your backup system needs to be on a reliable cellular or Wi-Fi circuit. All of your data needs to be transferred immediately to different places when you’re working on it, which means you have to be connected to a reliable Internet connection for automated processes to work like they’re supposed to.
[Read more…]Originally posted on June 11, 2019 @ 8:25 am
Apartment hunting used to be such a painful chore, with “hunting” being the operative word. You can’t rely on listings or friend recommendations because these are incomplete and unreliable since the information is not updated regularly. You can get a good lead but find out that it’s already taken when you get there.
You can imagine how doubly difficult it gets when your apartment hunting involves finding a place in another country.
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Originally posted on October 10, 2012 @ 10:05 pm