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Dear workmates,

When I provide you with numerous solutions, do not say “that’s not what I want to do” because there’s only so many ways I can stop your Blackberry’s email inbox filling up.

Ta,
yale.

Dear conference presenters,

When we ask for a short (six-line maximum) biography/intro for our published forum program, please send us LESS than six lines on an average page. Sending us a page and a half does not make us put it all in – and we’ll send it right back.

Thanks,
James.

“Extreme weather, low pressure (90km wind gusts) makes flying in and out interesting.”

This from a guy that’s just flown into a tiny country town in a light plane? Love it.

I really should know better than to trust sales people, I keep getting messed around, but I go back for more. This was a conversation I had with one of the reps at The Planet tonight.

Please wait while we find an agent to assist you…
You have been connected to Brian J.

• Brian J: Hello, how may I help you?
• Customer: Hi, I was just wondering what the different backup solutions offered with the dedicated servers actually were
• Customer: you list network backup or discsync, what’s the difference?
• Brian J: Disksync is automated and much more user friendly.
• Brian J: You can set it up to automatically run as frequent as you prefer.
• Brian J: NAS is space in a seperate storage array you would have to copy and send the data to when you would like to save.
• Customer: so the network backup is nas space allocated to us, disksync uses an automated agent?
• Brian J: Correct
• Customer: and what does disksync require on the server, a username/password setup on ftp or ssh?
• Brian J: Neither its a GUI agent installed on the user console
• Customer: I’m a little lost
• Brian J: Using a simple GUI interface, you can manage all aspects of your backup and recovery including data retention periods, backup schedules, and data restoration.
• Customer: yes, but how does it access the server assuming I’m going to change firewall rules and services running on the server I intend to setup?
• Customer: (I’m looking at a bare bsd/centos box)
• Brian J: The firewall rules would have no effect on Discsync
• Customer: how does it access the server?
• Customer: assuming it doesn’t traverse the network (which you seem to be implying by saying the firewall rules will not effect it)
• Brian J: Through the agent console installed on the box
• Customer: never mind, found the information
• Customer: you’re incorrect by the way – firewall rules would actually cause problems if they weren’t correct
• Customer: refer to your company’s faq on http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?showtopic=83882
• Customer: goodbye.

Your session has ended. You may now close this window.

Dear Sir,

If I tell you to click continue, you don’t need to confirm with me twice to make sure I’m completely sure. Please just click the damn button.

Thanks,
James.