[FoRK] Cloudy thoughts on backups

Mon Dec 14 21:54:04 PST 2009

I read a post on one of those popular tech blogs .. ZDNet, maybe? The guy was having a problem with his Mac and it had to go in for repair. He was able to coax it to run enough to do a backup "... to the safety of the cloud."

Is that an oxymoron? Or is he just a moron?

On a somewhat related note, a message for the suppliers of cloudy services:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/12/14.html

         ...ken...

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