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| Thread ID: 22141 | 2002-07-13 00:28:00 | Corngate, appalling ignorance... | Terry Porritt (14) | Press F1 |
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| 61945 | 2002-07-13 02:51:00 | Turn on husband's computer, create a directory called Heather and, using Explorer and the network, copy all files that I want to keep (plus anything that looks relevant) to his hard drive. Then, as I go for the belt AND braces idea, copy a smaller selection of files to a CD. NOTE: the last time I used MS backup the first zip disk restored OK, the second didn't. Fortunately I'd made a second, slightly reduced, copy by the above method to a futher zip disk so all was OK. Oh, and spot test (a 0.1% sampling rate) of the copied files (by opening and running them on the other machine) before deleting the originals! |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 61946 | 2002-07-13 03:09:00 | Aha, someone else who has this odd idea that a backup isn't a backup unless it's been tested. ;-) But Terry, people are stupid. News media people think that any number is a statistic . I have been amused (in a sad way) by the netball announcers giving "percentages" of players' goal attempts. If there are fewer than 100, there is NO SUCH THING as a percentage. Nearly as bad as the coach who, when it was mentioned that her tall players had an advantage, said that her players used other skills as well. :D |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 61947 | 2002-07-13 03:40:00 | The other really annoying thing (well, it annoys me anyway), is this inane media practice of making a "gate" word for everything. I understand that this somehow relates to Watergate, which was the name of the hotel where Nixon met his "Waterloo" (another story altogether) in 1972. Since then, the newsmedia people have persistently come up with these stupid "gate" words for every political faux pas - lately "paintergate" and "corngate". Its really meaninless and pathetic......whoops, that just about sums up most politians and reporters, doesn't it?! andy (I'm bald too!) |
andy (473) | ||
| 61948 | 2002-07-13 03:45:00 | Graham, The network files opened, the CD file didn't. Now to try again.... |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 61949 | 2002-07-13 03:50:00 | My estimate is that there are millions of those 1/4" tapes which people fondly call their "backups". Could we call it Backupgate ? ]:) | Graham L (2) | ||
| 61950 | 2002-07-13 03:59:00 | My favourite was an organisation that I once worked for. Certain people reluctant to trust the Network (Novell with daily backups stored off site) saving stuff to their "unvirused protected" hard drives. The occassional backup that did happen was on floppy, stored in a drawer of their desk. It was a school. What's the chance of arson? Now me, the database was on the network but my EXTRA backups of it (daily and weekly!) went home with me at night! |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 61951 | 2002-07-13 04:10:00 | Aaaarrrgggghhh!!! | andy (473) | ||
| 61952 | 2002-07-13 04:22:00 | That response "Aaaarrrgggghhh!!!" means: You've met others who have done this? You've done it yourself? You think I'm paranoid? ...... As far as the original post goes - this is highly relevant! Statistical probablities... |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 61953 | 2002-07-13 04:31:00 | Statistical probabilities...can anyone point me to any freeware that will simplify my need to establish normality of a sample test of a large number of devices. I have the sample quantities needed under the appropriate standard, but need an idiot-proof method of establishing normality... (using Chi two tailed methodology) And no, I am not testing cornseed.... I think the reactions of people were the issue for me, not the GE implications. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 61954 | 2002-07-13 04:40:00 | Have a look at www.utexas.edu . I'm not sure about the NAG, and SPSS is definitely commercial. | Graham L (2) | ||
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