
I have wondered that ...
... in order to wear one of those outfits you have to be fucking desperate, or retarded.
Anyone here care to fess up?
It's October and that show has come around again – IP Expo, the successor to Storage Expo. This year, the UK's "premier IT trade show" took place in Earl's Court, and saw a busy floor with lots of stands, lots of lead-hunting stand staff and the usual assortment of attention-grabbing oddities, like a man dressed as an HP Cloud, …
It's only as cheap as chips until you want the data back, then it's rather expensive.
After the online backup service I was using announced it was closing, I looked at Glacier - if a disc failed it would be about as much to use one of the disc recovery services (and they're not cheap) as it would be to get the data off Glacier.
Only for write-only archiving of stuff you have to keep but never want to see again.
Paris, because I never want to see her again either.