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recursivelyenumerable

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Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC almost certainly to blame
« on: October 11, 2009, 05:02:54 AM »
"Regrettably, based on Microsoft/Danger's latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device - such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos - that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger. That said, our teams continue to work around-the-clock in hopes of discovering some way to recover this information. However, the likelihood of a successful outcome is extremely low."

wow.
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Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC suspected
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2009, 11:56:23 AM »
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Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC suspected
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2009, 12:05:59 PM »
So not only do they make shitty console hardware, they're able to screw up shitty servers too?  :lol :lol :lol
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Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC suspected
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2009, 12:09:51 PM »
the last part of the Price is Right fail horn sounds kinda like one of my farts.
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Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC suspected
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2009, 12:29:23 PM »
link plx?   this sounds fucked. 
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Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC suspected
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2009, 12:35:48 PM »
Don't they do routine backups?  All servers side companies do. Unless something happened with their backup servers too.
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Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC suspected
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2009, 12:36:17 PM »
It's Microsoft, they can't even make a good video game system how do you expect them to have any brains?
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Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC suspected
« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2009, 02:00:17 PM »
my guess is it has less to do with the dangers of the cloud and more to do with the dangers of acquiring a company you don't know what to do with, but I dunno.
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Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC suspected
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2009, 10:44:35 PM »
I thought they farmed out the maintenance to some Indian company or something and they fucked it up?
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Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC suspected
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2009, 10:46:35 PM »
And people want to install beta copies of MS operating systems?
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Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC suspected
« Reply #10 on: October 12, 2009, 12:30:13 AM »
says the guy who's excited about Eoin Colfer's Hitchhiker book
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Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC almost certainly to blame
« Reply #11 on: October 12, 2009, 02:36:23 AM »
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Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC almost certainly to blame
« Reply #12 on: October 12, 2009, 03:48:09 AM »
let's all just delete all our data!  format c:!  rm -rf /!  ri -r / -ea silentlycontinue!  whee!
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Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC almost certainly to blame
« Reply #13 on: October 12, 2009, 11:40:51 AM »
Wow.
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Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC almost certainly to blame
« Reply #14 on: October 12, 2009, 12:38:26 PM »
I'm still curious as to why that stuff isn't kept on the phone. 
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Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC almost certainly to blame
« Reply #15 on: October 12, 2009, 01:52:30 PM »
My wife's deaf sister (yeah its complicated!) and her deaf friends are totally freaking out about this. Sidekicks are still enormously popular with the deaf/Hard of Hearing community since the company was one of the first mobile device providers to make something that was useful for them.

Hope they clear things up. I was reading that MS did a SAN upgrade without a backout path? That's like something that a group of college interns would make a mistake on.
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« Reply #16 on: October 12, 2009, 01:53:38 PM »
Yeah, apparently they outsourced the SAN upgrade to a bunch of idiots.
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Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC almost certainly to blame
« Reply #17 on: October 12, 2009, 01:55:53 PM »
I didn't even realize Sidekick was still around. Maybe I'm just out of the loop, but I was under the impression the smart phone market was cornered by Blackberry and Apple.
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