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Old 03-22-2007, 10:27 AM   #1
Harkoliar
Jack Burton
 

Join Date: March 21, 2001
Location: Philippines, but now Harbor City Sydney
Age: 42
Posts: 5,556
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Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing information for an account worth $US38 billion ($A48 billion).
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That's what happened to a computer technician reformatting a disk drive at the Alaska Department of Revenue. While doing routine maintenance work, the technician accidentally deleted applicant information for an oil-funded account - one of Alaska residents' biggest perks - and mistakenly reformatted the backup drive, as well.
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There was still hope, until the department discovered its third line of defence, backup tapes, were unreadable.

link here :
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/...html?from=top5

just imagine 48 billion.. i already felt misreable when i formated and erased all my useless junk years ago, but 48 billion .. erhm..
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