[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Community Participant; Katrina Refugee

[Karl S. Katzke]

Just don't do what one of my friends did, and fed-ex his backup CDs to 
his mom in Biloxi ... who kept them in a box on a shelf out back in the 
shed.

After the storm, they found precisely half of one... embedded in the 
siding on the house...

-K

Mike M wrote:

>On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:04:41AM -0400, JR Richardson wrote:
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>>If anyone has any trade secrets on successfully recovering waterlogged electronic equipment, please let me know.
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>Glad that you're safe.  We're still waiting to hear about some of our
>people.
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>Notes of encouragement:
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>1) DMS-10s have been through floods, hosed off, and made to operate
>again.
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>2) I sent an Audiovox cell phone to the 12ft end of a swimming pool.  One
>of the life guards brought it to me a while later.  I washed it and
>dried it and used it for another year.
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>3) If you have a really valuable HDD then maybe its worth taking it to a
>recovery specialist.
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>Note of discouragement:
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>1) My Motorola flip-phone fell into the toilet.  I washed it and dried
>it and it started working - sort of.  It has water tattle-tale stickers
>inside.  Maybe they designed it to stop working when it gets wet :).
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>Note to us all:
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>We should do off-site backups.  Encrypt sensitive stuff.  Send copies to
>relatives and friends for safe keeping. I know I've been putting it off
>for 5 years now.
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