Mainframeguy
Debiant by way of Ubuntu
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- 29 Aug 2002
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last week at my new job a colleague was telling me about the BLAG meeting they had been at... and the main man at BLAG had just got back online....
But the horror story is what took him offline... And it makes the burglary I suffered and the loss of my mobile computing pale by comparison.
Apparently this guy was raided and had EVERY computer in the house stolen, so all desktops, servers, laptops, netbooks - the whole show was gone. Of course this took out all his encryption keys and suchlike with it....
I can remember how it felt losing my one main rig (I had accidentally migrated to the laptop because it was my only up to date dual core)... But I was mighty glad they left me the server and desktops. Even then my experience meant I was offline for a few weeks...
Personally I'm impressed it has only taken him six months to resurface online again, but I bet he takes a different approach now and found the adjustment "interesting". There's nothing like this sort of thing to make you find out what is important and reconsider your backup strategy.
But I reckon that must be as bad as it gets, I really felt for the guy when I heard about it. Made me even more mad with burglars, but this sounds like a very fishy kind of theft...
But the horror story is what took him offline... And it makes the burglary I suffered and the loss of my mobile computing pale by comparison.
Apparently this guy was raided and had EVERY computer in the house stolen, so all desktops, servers, laptops, netbooks - the whole show was gone. Of course this took out all his encryption keys and suchlike with it....
I can remember how it felt losing my one main rig (I had accidentally migrated to the laptop because it was my only up to date dual core)... But I was mighty glad they left me the server and desktops. Even then my experience meant I was offline for a few weeks...
Personally I'm impressed it has only taken him six months to resurface online again, but I bet he takes a different approach now and found the adjustment "interesting". There's nothing like this sort of thing to make you find out what is important and reconsider your backup strategy.
But I reckon that must be as bad as it gets, I really felt for the guy when I heard about it. Made me even more mad with burglars, but this sounds like a very fishy kind of theft...