One of the most important steps of taking backups is testing them. Not just the processes, but that is how you verify that the backups are being taken correctly too.

Congrats, it looks like things are going well for you!

@brendan-pitstop-nz said:

so, some positives there for going back - BUT
they are in trouble. your replacement has left - sounds like in abrupt circumstances.
you know the environment, can step right back into the pilots chair and put out the (many) fires
um, that means a PAYRISE. at least 10%. because the alternative for the company is getting someone else in (takes time), and getting them up to speed (takes more time)
time is money in business. get the payrise, then by all means go back. but not at the same rate, different circumstances

I agree, going back for the "same money" is actually you taking a step back in your career and status. You will be getting the same money even though you are worth more. That's a cut, in reality.

You need 10% more minimum. Maybe a lot more than that.

Very nice, that's a great upgrade, and for free! That does a bit to set them apart from Digital Ocean and Linode. I don't think that either of them offer firewalls, do they?

Another vote for CodeAcademy. Great website.

A lot of the excitement around this stuff is less the size and more the ability to explore designs that were impractical before.

When do you start to consider PCIe SSD rather than SSD drives connected to a normal RAID controller?

This will really lower competition in the SAN space. Only a few viable vendors left. Nimble was one of the few major players.

Whoa, welcome back. Hope that all is well!

Glad to see that you managed to get it working. Or mostly working, at least.

And then there is billing overhead, too.

Congrats, AJ.

And good morning, Joy.

@DustinB3403 said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:

@StrongBad said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:

@DustinB3403 said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:

@StrongBad said in Ubuntu News: Massive Downsizing and Searching for Funding:

It would be rather awful for the industry if they were to suddenly collapse. They are too big to fail, in a way.

Really? I know of no one that is actually purchasing support through them.

As a platform they are massive, and are used globally, that I understand. The question I have is Canonical doing most of the software development or is the community?

Canonical does loads of the development and lots of places use their software because they can get support, not necessarily because they do get support. This will have a lot of ripples.

Maybe Red Hat or Suse would pick up support contracts to protect customers.

Sure, but the support that may be had, isn't helping the business. The focus of the employee cuts are around the Unity team. Not general development teams.

The cuts are deep, way deeper than just the Unity team. That team could not have been that large.

Yes, the theory had gaping holes that people were just ignoring, as the article mentions too.

@Dashrender said:

@drewlander found ProjecSend

I was reading Drew's responses and was a bit confused but I think, after reading it, that you mean he founded the project? He didn't just find it and want to talk about it, he's actually the founder?