3 posts tagged “tech”
I just happened upon a news story that I apparently overlooked. It's now 3 months old, but it's still fascinating.
Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing information for an account worth $38 billion (€29 billion). That is what happened to a computer technician reformatting a disk drive at the Alaska Department of Revenue. While doing routine maintenance work, the technician accidentally deleted applicant information for an oil-funded account — one of Alaska residents' biggest perks — and mistakenly reformatted the backup drive, as well....
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But I'm not sure to whom.
I was writing what your're reading now with the aid of:  |
....while simultaniously downloading Release Candidate 2 of:  |
Things that make you go hummmm...
