I work for Red Hat, where I lead JBoss technical direction and research/development. Prior to this I was SOA Technical Development Manager and Director of Standards. I was Chief Architect and co-founder at Arjuna Technologies, an HP spin-off (where I was a Distinguished Engineer). I've been working in the area of reliable distributed systems since the mid-80's. My PhD was on fault-tolerant distributed systems, replication and transactions. I'm also a Professor at Newcastle University and Lyon.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
One thing that goes missing from backups
My mobile phone decided to die yesterday. Bad enough in and of itself, but it's gone in such a way that I can't get access to those little things I take for granted, such as address book! Yes, I have a version on the SIM, but it's way out of date. I only copy from the phone to the SIM when I move phones and that relies on them both being available! I back up my machines regularly. I do the same for my PDA. But it never occurs to me to look at the phone too. I think that'll change now.
I think you know the solution to that problem.... ;)
ReplyDeleteI won't degrade myself by pushing apple hardware here though (but it has saved me a few times !).
I'm thinking about it. The only problem with the iphone ;-) is that in the UK it's locked to a different network provider.
ReplyDeleteAlso an androig based Gphone could solve your troubles.
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