Just a thought…
Politics blaming each other’s, but right now trying to blame European people, that they don’t want to come and help Britain in need.
Everybody forgets what was shown last year. Thousands of HGV trucks have been stuck in companies car parks as they were not needed. The world has been fighting with Covid so no such many goods have been moving around.
When you buy Solid State Drive (SDD) the last thing is to have your drive fail and all files are lost.
With SSD is not as easy to restore anything as it could be with mechanical drives. If they fail it’s rarely anybody will bother to fix it, and most companies will just give you a new drive if it’s still on warranty.
Don’t expect any money back or help in the restoration of your files from faulty drives. None of the warranty covers that from any manufacturers - end of the story.
However, in this rare instance of failure, you expect swift action without any hassle and any extra cost for yourself. You already have a big (unrectified) cost for losing all your data so why to get another one?
And here the problem occurs.
When I moved into a static website made using Hugo I optimised almost everything, including the Google Analytics script. Instead of bulky code loaded from Google, I used Minimal Analytics.
Initially, I put it as always, in the head of my website. Later on, I added it to my 404.html page. I created my own 404 page to override the default Netlify landing page that appears when the visited URL was not found.
The idea was initially to find broken links that visitors are using and to fix them with relevant redirection. However, it didn’t take long until my analytics were spammed by stupid people (and their bots) trying to find a way to break in to my site.
At the beginning of 2014, I purchased my first-ever MacBook Pro. It was a Late-2013 model with Intel Core i5, 8GB of RAM and 256GB SSD. A superb machine that worked with me for years (till 2020). It could work with me a bit longer but I feel that I need an upgrade.
I never classed myself as a creator despite I have learned to use new things to create something new.
I am more of a person who can use certain skills and available tools to achieve my goal.
Most of us have certainly heard about the requirements for Windows 11, when it comes to hardware. A large number of users were disappointed, checking whether they will be able to update their hardware to the latest system from Microsoft. But… how it is not possible, if it is!
Even though Windows 10 has settled in on our computers, Microsoft has prepared a real surprise for us — Windows 11. In addition, it announced that the update will be free — well, almost.
There are a couple of things that I cannot imagine doing when surfing around the internet. One is RSS/Atom to stay on top of new things on websites that I am watching (I wrote about it in a post: Why RSS still matters in 2021?). The other important thing is a virtual place where I can save a website to come back to it or to read it later.
If you are a person who is just starting to be tech-wise, or you are an experienced user, who on daily basis monitoring various websites to be always up-to-date, you know that social media is not the place where you will look, it’s RSS.
When I started working for my employer, they were using an on-site server and file storage with overnight backups to external drives. Everything was limited by the broadband (internet connection) speed, which in England is quite crazy — business parks rarely have access to inexpensive fibre connections, whereas at home you can get cheap Full Fibre. When things changed (or rather, the company needed to invest in change), we moved everything into the cloud.
We chose Microsoft 365 as our provider.
Once the migration was completed and people had got used to accessing their files in the new way (which hadn’t changed much thanks to the integration of the OneDrive app with Windows, apart from the use of file links), I needed to find a method to back up all files in case of an emergency (or the accidental removal of important files by an employee).
Although Microsoft provides an option to restore files for a short period (typically 30 days), sometimes that may be too short — by the time you notice files are missing, it could be too late. It’s better to have a backup (even an old version of the file) than to have no copy at all.
Without going into costly online backup solutions, or even investing in Microsoft 365 Backup (with its pay-as-you-go billing model), I decided to build an inexpensive and relatively cheap long-term backup system — and I did.
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