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Welcome to Orcmid's Lair, the playground for family connections, pastimes, and scholarly vocation -- the collected professional and recreational work of Dennis E. Hamilton Archives Atom Feed Associated Blogs Edge City Numbering Peano Praxis101 Prof. von Clueless in the Blunder Dome Recent Items The Final Page Oh, the tragedy, the humanity: Donate Now (amazon link) The Asia Disaster: Aiding the International Relief Effort Tsunami - Earthquake - Supporting International Relief The Heart of Trust Accountability: Lessons from Engineering and Medicine Sandy's CyberHome Travels Justifying Pre-Emptive War The IT Chaos Tipping Point? Security-Challenged Arphids at a Survey Near You	2005-03-03 The fearful state of on-line students Institute for Backup Trauma. While "The Final/Last Page" is something all of my classmates dream about during their dissertation writing, another common theme is fear of losing all of ones work. The number of different backups, systems, and schemes used to mitigate against loss of documents and the dissertation materials is astonishing. Today, classmate Henk van Dongen added remarks of spending a lot of time on surveys made me think of another thing, back-up. Being in the dissertation phase, I find myself being endless careful in that regard. John Cleese made a nice movie in this regard, it's on: http://www.backuptrauma.com/video/default2.aspx You'll need to have scripting and ActiveX allowed to view this page. It is completely worth it, of course. I suppose the Citibank folks are suffering the painful embarassment of backup trauma in a big way, eh? Working on: Visual C++ Toolkit 2003: The freeware distribution from Microsoft. I am looking at this as an appropriate tool related to my M.Sc topic. I'll be recommending lightweight tools for confirming the construction of open-systems components received from other sources, and minimizing the cost of developer tools is important for that. Funny thing: The toolkit installation package embodies a tacit assumption that the user will be the administrator. And the first example for using the command-line compiler has the neophyte create a project directory under the Toolkit's program directory beneath `c:\Program Files\` [;<). posted by orcmid at 3/3/2005 01:20:00 PM *Comments:* This post has been removed by a blog administrator. # posted by sameer k: 7:47 AM HELLO ORCMID, THAT WAS A REALLY INTERESTING POST AND VERY INFORMATIVE AND ITS VERY GOOD INFORMATION FOR SYSTEM ADMINS. THANKS SAMEER #posted by sameer k: 7:47 AM [dh:2005-04-04T15:56Z I deleted the original form of the above comment because it contained a link that I suspect is comment spam. A link to Sameer's Amazing Opportunities blog works for me as a form of full disclosure and I am providing it in place of the apparently-spam link. It is difficult for me to tell whether the comment is related to my blog entry, but it might be and this is my concession to that. I also notice that it takes a fair amount of work to give Sameer the benefit of the doubt here, and if this kind of comment becomes prevalent I won't be able to be so generous in the future.] # posted by orcmid: 8:57 AM Post a Comment

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