[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Community Participant; Katrina Refugee

[Mike M]

On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:04:41AM -0400, JR Richardson wrote:
> If anyone has any trade secrets on successfully recovering waterlogged electronic equipment, please let me know.

Glad that you're safe.  We're still waiting to hear about some of our
people.

Notes of encouragement:

1) DMS-10s have been through floods, hosed off, and made to operate
again.

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.

3) If you have a really valuable HDD then maybe its worth taking it to a
recovery specialist.

Note of discouragement:

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 :).

Note to us all:

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.

-- 
Mike