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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
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 Posted - Oct 16 2009 : 10:34:51 AM
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| I could have sworn I created a thread about my physics simulator. I tried your search feature with 'physics' for a keyword and I search 'all forums' and 'entire message' and I got absolutely nothing. |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
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jnewman
Apprentice
United Kingdom
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
2261 Posts |
Posted - Oct 16 2009 : 9:16:41 PM
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Yeah, it could have something to do with the last problem that occured with the server.
http://www.aaroncake.net/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8304 |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
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Yerboogieman
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
577 Posts |
Posted - Oct 17 2009 : 02:56:12 AM
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| He deletes my topics all the time. |
If you don't have the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over? |
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
2261 Posts |
Posted - Oct 17 2009 : 05:10:21 AM
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| I wonder why. |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
6718 Posts |
Posted - Oct 18 2009 : 10:46:55 AM
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Do you happen to have a bookmark to that topic? Or can you find it in your browser history?
I can't find it via the search either but could find it if I knew the topic ID which would be in the URL.
I'm a bit disturbed that something would disappear. I just checked the database and didn't see any topics with "physics" or "simulator" in the subject. |
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
2261 Posts |
Posted - Oct 18 2009 : 11:34:06 PM
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Originally posted by Aaron Cake
Do you happen to have a bookmark to that topic? Or can you find it in your browser history?
I can't find it via the search either but could find it if I knew the topic ID which would be in the URL.
I'm a bit disturbed that something would disappear. I just checked the database and didn't see any topics with "physics" or "simulator" in the subject.
Damn, no I don't.
Maybe you can run a keyword search through all topic IDs?
Hope you can fix it Aaron. |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
6718 Posts |
Posted - Oct 20 2009 : 09:27:39 AM
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| I'll see what I can do, but I already searched the DB via keyword. My guess is that when I repaired the DB after restoring from backup a few weeks ago, a few records were lost. I don't know if I have any older backups since I don't have any tapes with backups older then 7 weeks. I think I will go to a 10 week rotation. I have enough tapes. |
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
2261 Posts |
Posted - Oct 20 2009 : 12:08:46 PM
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| LOL! Tapes? Arn't they outdated. |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
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codingplanet
Mad Scientist
United Kingdom
195 Posts |
Posted - Oct 20 2009 : 4:01:51 PM
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jnewman
Apprentice
United Kingdom
126 Posts |
Posted - Oct 20 2009 : 4:51:41 PM
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| Lol my work still uses tapes. They have all sorts of problems. The tape drive in a Dell server keeps breaking and has been replaced numerous times. I've been trying to persuade the boss to ditch tapes, and buy a bunch of external hard disks to replace them. That way they don't have to buy new tapes every half a year or so |
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wasssup1990
Nobel Prize Winner
A Land Down Under
2261 Posts |
Posted - Oct 20 2009 : 9:43:58 PM
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| I have four old 8GB data tapes here but I have no reader for them. |
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. |
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
6718 Posts |
Posted - Oct 21 2009 : 10:31:11 AM
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For corporate style and server backups, tapes are still the best solution. After the initial purchase of the drive, the cost of operation is very low and media is very cheap per gigabyte. And if you need more capacity, just buy more tapes.
External hard drives are fine for a home backup but unsuitable for anything else. Assuming a 5 day weekly rotation, a customer would have to purchase 5 external hard drives at the cost of about $150 each. Instead, spend a little more on a tape drive and not be limited to only a 5 day rotation or a high cost when you need more "media". Tapes are also more robust, easier to store, last damn near forever and are more "future proof" then other media.
I'm not sure who Dell buys their tape drives from. In the past I have found HP drives to be very hit and miss. These days they are decent. Sony has been pretty good as well. IBM drives are usually Archive drives which are very high quality. Quantum makes nice drives, as does Tanburg data.
It's important to keep a tape drive clean otherwise it will die quickly and end up eating tapes. |
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