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EARTHDATE: September 24, 2006

Official News - page 9

REAL LIFE NEWS: MY DATA NEEDS RECOVERING BECAUSE...

by Hazed

Disklabs is a UK-based data recovery firm, and they have just compiled a list of some of the more unusual reasons their clients have given for needing their services. Some of the excuses are quite understandable - "it fell off the roof of a car" or "I accidentally drove over it". But the list also includes throwing laptop computers out of windows or down wells, being chewed by a dog, and getting swamped in crude oil.

Perhaps my favorite is: "The cat peed on my laptop".

Read the full story on The Register web site.


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