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2005-03-03The 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. 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?
Comments: 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.] 2005-03-02The Final PageFrom M.Sc in IT classmate Geoffrey Canham comes this link: Some good advice seen in New Scientist magazine this week: Go to http://www.ss.astro.umd.edu/IAU/csbn/, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the 'The Real World' link.I would love to say that is what I have been doing and that it accounts for my blog-block, but that isn't it. This as good a start as any for unblocking, though. Enjoy. I have some pent up blogging to unleash, although I am doing the right thing by focusing on my now-approved M.Sc dissertation topic. Meanwhile, another dissertation-weary classmate remarked that "The Final Page" is what he would like to find as he struggles with literature searching on the internet. Comments: Post a Comment |
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