Comments on: Trust Has Limits http://www.ignorantmouth.com/2009/01/trust-has-limits/ Speaking about Current Events and the Political Situation Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:45:45 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Good Riddance 2009 | Ignorant Mouth http://www.ignorantmouth.com/2009/01/trust-has-limits/comment-page-1/#comment-5579 Good Riddance 2009 | Ignorant Mouth Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:40:27 +0000 http://www.ignorantmouth.com/?p=171#comment-5579 [...] companies fell one by one, they tried all kinds of bonehead tactics, including suing themselves for damages. The once proud [...] [...] companies fell one by one, they tried all kinds of bonehead tactics, including suing themselves for damages. The once proud [...]

]]> By: LiveJournal Down But Not Out : Ignorant Mouth http://www.ignorantmouth.com/2009/01/trust-has-limits/comment-page-1/#comment-22 LiveJournal Down But Not Out : Ignorant Mouth Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:12:58 +0000 http://www.ignorantmouth.com/?p=171#comment-22 [...] many years, I would be saddened to see the company disappear from the map as fast as some of its lesser-known competitors. Although the LiveJournal platform is out-dated and average by today’s Facebook and Wordpress [...] [...] many years, I would be saddened to see the company disappear from the map as fast as some of its lesser-known competitors. Although the LiveJournal platform is out-dated and average by today’s Facebook and Wordpress [...]

]]> By: mwilson http://www.ignorantmouth.com/2009/01/trust-has-limits/comment-page-1/#comment-18 mwilson Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:58:31 +0000 http://www.ignorantmouth.com/?p=171#comment-18 Management was definitely irresponsible, but I still believe the situation was allowed to happen through ignorance rather than anything else. I feel for the bloggers who have lost years of work because of this. From the Journal Space blog: http://journalspace.com/blog/ <blockquote>January 2nd This sounds like an ancient Chinese curse: "may you be featured on Slashdot and have 80 Twitter followers." Some more background for the folks who caught the news on Slashdot or another blog: yes, I was a huge idiot, first and foremost. It was the guy handling the IT (and, yes, the same guy who I caught stealing from the company, and who did a slash-and-burn on some servers on his way out) who made the choice to rely on RAID as the only backup mechanism for the SQL server. He had set up automated backups for the HTTP server which contains the PHP code, but, inscrutibly, had no backup system in place for the SQL data. The ironic thing here is that one of his hobbies was telling everybody how smart he was. This doesn't excuse what happened, though: I should have taken a better look at what he'd left behind, and fixed all of the things that needed fixing.</blockquote> Management was definitely irresponsible, but I still believe the situation was allowed to happen through ignorance rather than anything else. I feel for the bloggers who have lost years of work because of this.

From the Journal Space blog:

http://journalspace.com/blog/

January 2nd

This sounds like an ancient Chinese curse: “may you be featured on Slashdot and have 80 Twitter followers.”

Some more background for the folks who caught the news on Slashdot or another blog: yes, I was a huge idiot, first and foremost.

It was the guy handling the IT (and, yes, the same guy who I caught stealing from the company, and who did a slash-and-burn on some servers on his way out) who made the choice to rely on RAID as the only backup mechanism for the SQL server. He had set up automated backups for the HTTP server which contains the PHP code, but, inscrutibly, had no backup system in place for the SQL data. The ironic thing here is that one of his hobbies was telling everybody how smart he was.

This doesn’t excuse what happened, though: I should have taken a better look at what he’d left behind, and fixed all of the things that needed fixing.

]]> By: netman http://www.ignorantmouth.com/2009/01/trust-has-limits/comment-page-1/#comment-16 netman Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:18:03 +0000 http://www.ignorantmouth.com/?p=171#comment-16 These people deserve this. They allow ONE person in the organization to have this much control without any backups? It's quite obvious they did not take their customers seriously or act in a responsible fashion. The turnip truck has now left town. These people deserve this. They allow ONE person in the organization to have this much control without any backups? It’s quite obvious they did not take their customers seriously or act in a responsible fashion. The turnip truck has now left town.

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