Student Finds a Stolen Thesis by Thinking Like a Thief

Friday, Dec 23. 2005  –  Category: Computers, Musings

Student Finds a Stolen Thesis by Thinking Like a Thief

Pretty amazing story of a woman who managed to recover her USB drive after it had been stolen…. with her only copy of her thesis on it.

I gotta say though – she’s just plain stupid. What’s the first rule of computers? Back your stuff up!

I know when I was writing my thesis, I had a special alias called ‘thesis’ aliased to: gvim ~/Documents/Thesis/thesis.tex;scp ~/Documents/Thesis/thesis.tex [host1];scp ~/Documents/Thesis/thesis.tex [host2] ... et. al until it was automatically backed up onto 4 different computers in 3 different time zones. :-P

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  1. Susan in St. Paul Says:
    December 23rd, 2005 at 11:23

    Whenever I am missing something I try and think like either the object or the person who took it, I thought that was normal. For instance, if I was my glasses where would I be? ;-)

    Not backing things up in general is probably normal too, but not backing up a thesis??? Insane!

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