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Virtual Machines

July 31st, 2008 · No Comments

VMware gave a big yawn, and settled down to sleep. And of course when VMware goes to sleep, all his friends go to sleep too. The users’ connections were just ornaments on the hard disk. Mail and DNS services were just dolls. And apache was a carved wooden bookend in the shape [...]

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The danger of using a portable drive to back up your data

July 31st, 2008 · No Comments

This is what a normal hard drive looks like inside. Note the nice shiny mirror like surface on the platter.

 
This is what happens to your drive when an internal part breaks. This is an actual customers drive opened in a clean room by a data recovery company. Not surprisingly the data could not be recovered.

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