[SGVLUG] Idea for Thursday: Stump the Chumps

[Matthew Gallizzi]

Depends, what kind of backup? I have 2 identical drives, an rsync every
night that keeps the drive in sync ... I do this instead of RAID 1 because I
can grab old files if I delete them. In my situation, a drive dies... and,
well, I just mount the second drive :)


On 9/11/06, Emerson, Tom <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > Since it's kind of variety night, we could play a round of
> > "Stump the Chumps" (someone will recognize the reference).
>
> Since I didn't directly recognize it, I did a search...
>
> Lots of variants, it seems...
>
>   -- first hit is an ongoing web-based game of "name that tune"
>   -- another was a blogger willing to take on "any" question (though it
> takes a bit of effort to find his answers)
>   -- another was a minister who got stumped by the following:
>      kids: how can more than one religion be right?
>      Minister: they can't all be right, suppose I point out Fred's shirt
> is yellow, but you say it's blue -- either I'm right and you're wrong,
> you're right and I'm wrong, or somehow we're both wrong
>      kids: ahh, to you, his shirt may be what you believe to be yellow,
> yet to us it is what we believe to be blue, thus we're both right
>
> [heavily paraphrased...]
>
>   -- a radio/web-podcast station (wtvn) who has a "chump" that "can turn
> any PC into sludge, regardless of whether it runs windows or mac"  [and
> yes, I noticed Linux was not mentioned there... ;) ]
>
> > Whoever can post the most
> > entertaining/thought-provoking/bizzare/lame problem ... I
> > recommend making a complete backup first. :-)
>
> Here's one -- how does one actually go about recovering from a backup?
>
> (this gets into a chicken-and-egg sort of problem; especially when the
> backup was made with the prior release, or better still, a different
> distro entirely)
>
>


-- 
Matthew Gallizzi
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