Fact: Cat urine and laptops don't mix

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19-09-2006, 02:18 PM
Steve

Fact: Cat urine and laptops don't mix

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Disklabs® Data Recovery Services receive over 50,000 requests per year from clients needing their data recovered. ‘It seems that each year, this list gets more and more bizarre’ says director Simon Steggles. This year is the first published list of data recovery disasters from Disklabs® Data Recovery Services, showing the client that no matter what you may think, recovery of data is nearly always possible, even from these somewhat extreme cases:

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=6762
19-09-2006, 02:50 PM
ernestrome

Isn't this just an ad for Disklabs, dressed up as news?
19-09-2006, 02:59 PM
Steve

Disklabs provided us with the list, Disklabs get the credit. Do you need any data recovery services? If not, why do you even care? If you find the scenarios amusing, have a little chuckle to yourself, otherwise, move on...
19-09-2006, 03:10 PM
kalniel

A large number of news items that news sites report come from press releases given out by a company or group - the news site can publish them verbatim, put it in their own words, or dig into it a little further and write their own article if they think it's interesting. Both parties gain :)
19-09-2006, 03:11 PM
ernestrome

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Originally Posted by kalniel

A large number of news items that news sites report come from press releases given out by a company or group - the news site can publish them verbatim, put it in their own words, or dig into it a little further and write their own article if they think it's interesting. Both parties gain :)

But i'm not sure that readers do.

Think it should be called a press release rather than news.

Steve there's no need to be so tetchy, i was just making a point.
19-09-2006, 03:21 PM
kalniel

I see your point, but they do benefit in that they get to hear about something that the news publications deem relevent to their readers. Sometimes there's little else they can do - say there is some new information out about a new technology; it's most likely that information comes out as a press release. The news publication has to pass on at least some of the content of the press release or they'd be failing in their remit to the readers. If they just put them out as press releases they'd quickly get boring, instead they can put their own wording and style in there, perhaps with some points of interest and it comes out as a news article :)
19-09-2006, 03:27 PM
ernestrome

Yes, but they only get to hear about disklabs based on the fact they put out this tosh, not based on their performance as a data recovery company. So free advertising, tacit endorsement and no examination of their actual performance.

It's just filler and should be viewed as such. No critical examination means it is not news.
19-09-2006, 03:31 PM
oOLimesOo

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‘She just got stroppy and snapped it in half’ – This is what we were told by a client whose husband thought she was having an affair. The phone, a Motorola V3 Razor was literally snapped in half by the upset wife. Disklabs® only received one half of the phone, and was still able to retrieve all the SMS messages and contacts.’

Is it just me or does this one get a bit confused as to who exactly broke the phone. It originally suggests the wife, but then it says the client's husband thought she was having an affair. Then it says she snapped it in half. But, unless she was speaking in a 3rd person, she wouldn't use She to describe herself in the original part (‘She just got stroppy and snapped it in half’)

Ok, I've got confused as to what I'M saying now. :(
19-09-2006, 03:33 PM
Steve

Limes, she probably wasn\'t too happy when he suggested she\'d been playing away.
19-09-2006, 03:43 PM
chuckskull

I\'ve seen the IT guy getting fired one a few times, most companies I\'ve worked with, now fire you then have two large men remove you from the premises, before you can do any damage :P

Yeah it may be a losely veiled attempt at gaining publicity, but it made me chuckle so I dont really care. I\'m sure the main incentive was sharing this with other people who found it amusing, not an attempt to gain world domination of the data recovery market.
19-09-2006, 04:59 PM
Lee H

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Originally Posted by ernestrome

Isn't this just an ad for Disklabs, dressed up as news?

It could well be an advert, but they are in much a better position to deal with incidents like these and probably deal with funny stuff like this on a DAILY basis.

I'll let them off if they keep reporting on the people who have made errors and cocked up on the grand scale.

Damn that list get's weirder and crazier every year... ;)