On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 10:16 -0700, David Guntner wrote: > Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > > There's a Wiki about what to consider for the most safe backup: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finagle%27s_law > > I used to read a lot of Larry Niven, so I'm well versed with the concept > of Finagle's Law (and yes, I know it was John Campbell Jr who originally > coined the term, but Niven popularized it in a number of his stories - > and heck, even the original Star Trek series made a couple of references > to it). :-) > > > However, it can't harm to do what's possible, as long as it won't cost > > much money and/or time, aka inappropriate effort. > > Yup. > > > We lose and we win. Anybody on this list in the age of > 40 still in > > partnership with the non-platonic friend loved in the age of 14 ;)? If > > not, nevertheless survived ;)? > > I have no idea what that means.... <puzzled>
Everything will elapse and while we guess we wouldn't stand it, we won't die when we lose something that was important for us, but we will survive. When you lose data or even your girlfriend doesn't like you anymore, you'll survive, it's not such a hard situation as we think it would be. There are real tragedies, that are much harder and for some people unbearable, but losing a song or savegame, even losing a girlfriend is different to the death of a child or even of the death of very old grandparents. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1373650490.697.124.camel@archlinux
