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On 08/01/2008, Matthew Wilkes <matt at matthewwilkes.name> wrote:
> We had all the computers in the MVB freeze for 10 minutes, presumably
> a server went down, then a few flickers that got a large number of
> students shouting obscenities as they lost hours of work.

Well, that should teach 'em a lesson. Better to learn it now than the
week before a deadline. Unless now *is* the week before a deadline.

We had a few people lose entire final year projects to the Chernobyl
virus in April '99...oh, and there was the time I used DOS 6 fdisk on
a FAT32 set of partitions. I got the data back, but that was the point
at which I purchased a backup device.

Does anyone else find that you lose less web stuff than
compiled-language stuff, cos you have to keep saving to test just what
the hell it's gonna look like in browser X?

Tim