amanoffewwords
17th Oct 2003, 01:40
This article on the BBC news website (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3193366.stm) makes all the issues discussed on this forum a piece of cake to solve in comparison:
The top ten of worse disasters according to their piece are as follows:
- Laptop shot in anger
- PC thrown out the window to destroy evidence before police arrived
- Laptop fell off a moped and was run over by lorry
- Laptop dropped in bath while doing company accounts
- Stolen PCs rescued after three weeks in a river
- Red wine spilt on laptop over dinner
- Server rescued after running unchecked 24/7 for years under -layers of dust and dirt (*)
- Computer thrown against a wall
- Latte-covered laptop rescued
- Laptop left on car roof as owner drives off
Well worth a read - if only to prove it could be worse...or you might sympathise with some of the comments at the end of the article. I can but I'm not telling which one I've done...
amofw
(*) in my previous life as a server installer for a large corp this kind of thing happened all the time, esp. in Turkey. We had one that was without keyboard, mouse or screen hidden behind a cupboard for years processing production traffic - it was discovered when the bank in question moved premises....!
The top ten of worse disasters according to their piece are as follows:
- Laptop shot in anger
- PC thrown out the window to destroy evidence before police arrived
- Laptop fell off a moped and was run over by lorry
- Laptop dropped in bath while doing company accounts
- Stolen PCs rescued after three weeks in a river
- Red wine spilt on laptop over dinner
- Server rescued after running unchecked 24/7 for years under -layers of dust and dirt (*)
- Computer thrown against a wall
- Latte-covered laptop rescued
- Laptop left on car roof as owner drives off
Well worth a read - if only to prove it could be worse...or you might sympathise with some of the comments at the end of the article. I can but I'm not telling which one I've done...
amofw
(*) in my previous life as a server installer for a large corp this kind of thing happened all the time, esp. in Turkey. We had one that was without keyboard, mouse or screen hidden behind a cupboard for years processing production traffic - it was discovered when the bank in question moved premises....!