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Emily - Oct 10, 2009 12:44:44 pm PDT #11331 of 25501
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

I need to put both a CD track and an MP3 file onto a CD, to be played I assume on a boom box. I would just buy the MP3 song on a damn disc, but there's some time pressure as this is for an impending funeral. There seem to be 5,000 conversion programs out there -- any suggestions?


Tom Scola - Oct 11, 2009 4:46:57 am PDT #11332 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Wow. T-Mobile and Danger, the Microsoft-owned subsidiary that makes the Sidekick, has just announced that they’ve likely lost all user data that was being stored on Microsoft’s servers due to a server failure. That means that any contacts, photos, calendars, or to-do lists that haven’t been locally backed up are gone.

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DCJensen - Oct 11, 2009 5:21:01 am PDT #11333 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot?


Calli - Oct 11, 2009 5:47:40 am PDT #11334 of 25501
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Microsoft doesn't back up its data? That's potentially problematic.


tommyrot - Oct 11, 2009 6:05:19 am PDT #11335 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Did someone stick a fridge magnet on the server again?


le nubian - Oct 11, 2009 6:16:59 am PDT #11336 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Umm? What Jensen said.


le nubian - Oct 11, 2009 6:20:40 am PDT #11337 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Here's a comment on the engadget page about the story:

If tmobile thinks that they can buy me off with a 19.99 credit after losing every phone # contact i gathered for the last 3-5 years of my life they are sorely mistaken. Class actions here we come. Goodbye tmobile, goodbye sidekick. This is more than unacceptable. Other then this post i am absolutely speechless from rage.


Jessica - Oct 11, 2009 6:27:34 am PDT #11338 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

My boss' non-work phone is a Sidekick. Luckily she's got everything backed up at home.


§ ita § - Oct 11, 2009 8:47:20 am PDT #11339 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Do you guys locally back up your phones? I have no doubt that I'd be expecting Microsoft to back up their service to me, but I'm still pretty OCD about it--my contacts and calendar and to do list are duplicated once on the Mac and once on the PC, aside from an actual phone backup on the PC.


Liese S. - Oct 11, 2009 8:54:43 am PDT #11340 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I don't. But I'm not in the applicable user group. My phone was free with purchase of contract and doesn't connect to my computer in any way.

I would still be pretty pissed if I lost all my contact info. So I should probably do something manually, huh?