Tag Archives: broken

Failed Flash & Missing Backups

But losing a faithful flash drive was not the worst part of this ordeal. No, the worst part was that I, a software technician of all people, had failed myself in that I didn’t keep any backups of the important data on the drive. Not a single backup whatsoever. Important personal documents, desktop application projects in mid development, databases built up over years, all gone because I was too lazy to keep up a decent backup programme. Continue reading

Posted in Technology & Code | Tagged , , , , , , | View Comments

Afrihost Internet Connectivity: A “Still not Quite Up” Update

International connectivity has pretty much been non-existent or moving at a completely unusable crawl since Monday, all thanks to a disruption in the all important Seacom undersea fiber cable that connects Africa to the rest of the world and acts as the cheap carrier line that allows all these small ISPs to offer the deals that they do. Continue reading

Posted in Technology & Code | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | View Comments