Back at the US and writing for Reporter
September 5th, 2008 | by emontero |I’ve been in the US for a little bit over a week now. I’m taking the last 2 courses of the MS IT degree at RIT. After that, it’ll be a matter of the final project (usually called capstone project).
My latest Reporter article is out! Here’s an extract:
We are used to thinking that internet applications are always and everlasting. If it’s online, it’s going to be there forever. Period. What if, all of the sudden, your favored site goes offline indefinitely? Do you have a backup strategy? Oh, you think that’s nonsensical? Jocular perhaps? Not for the many people who tried to access Gmail a few weeks ago, just to realize Google’s famous free mail service was unavailable.
The downtime lasted several hours. As one would expect, the public outcry was rampant and merciless. How is it possible that Google, arguably one of the most powerful IT companies in the world, experienced such an abnormal, incredibly long downtime? Alas, they are not alone in this department.
You can get the entire piece here (if you like it, please vote for it). You can also get this week’s Reporter as a PDF file.
2 Responses to “Back at the US and writing for Reporter”
By xmonk on Sep 8, 2008 | Reply
To backup your emails from Gmail, it’s as simple as enabling POP3, and downloading your emails, it might take a while, but that’s about the fastest and painless way available.
By the way kudos, for finding a way to use the adjective Jocular, last time I read that term was in my high school literature class many moons ago.
By Ivan on Sep 8, 2008 | Reply
Agreed on using POP3, simple and gets it done. I’d also suggest setting gmail to archive each email downloaded via pop, so you always have a backup on their servers (if you have no security concerns, that is)