MetaFilter posts tagged with backup

Danger data loss

finite — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:29:30 -0800

T-Mobile and Microsoft/Danger probably lost all Sidekick users' data. They continue to advise customers to NOT reset their device by removing the battery or letting their battery drain completely, as any personal content that currently resides on your device will be lost.

Lead singers are overrated...

flapjax at midnite — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:08:49 -0800

Give the backup singers some! Ladies and gentlemen, it's... The Pips! OK, so here's the tunes with Gladys... I Heard It Through the Grapevine and Midnight Train to Georgia, the latter featuring 1974 cutting-edge video split-screen technology!

Long Term Thinking

Homemade Interossiter — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:39:07 -0800

How far do you plan ahead? Are we careering towards another Dark Age? The Long Now Foundation (subject of many previous posts on Metafilter), has finally solved the technical problems in producing a modern day Rosetta Stone. Orders are now shipping. Not only does the question address long term backup and materials science, but also the evolution of language.

youtube on the boobtube

petsounds — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:24:40 -0800

just a reminder..now that google is facing lawsuits and will have to delete some great youtube videos you can always download the flv videos of your favorites and burn them onto blank dvds

Disk keeps getting cheaper.

dmd — Thu, 18 May 2006 09:53:08 -0800

Amazon S3, now for the masses. Amazon S3 has been discussed previously, but several user-facing services have appeared in the last few weeks that allow ordinary non-programmer end users to take advantage of it. One of the most useful of these appears to be Jungle Disk, a free front-end (free beer!) that lets you use S3 as a webdav-mounted disk drive. It works on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and there's GPL code available (free speech!) that lets other people develop alternative compatible front-ends.