Topic: Here's My Introduction & What Got Me To Descent & Freespace Collecting!

[Matthew]

"The cloud" has a much better track record than your home network. Backups, redundancy, uptime guarantees, building security, fire suppression, multiple locations, network security, encryption, monitoring, etc. What does your home network have? A deadbolt and a smoke detector, and a basic NAT firewall? Maybe a RAID setup if you're good. Data loss simply doesn't happen in the cloud. Data theft? Maybe, extremely rarely. But not loss.

[Tylosaurus]

Sorry but I disagree with you, my home network I find more reliable, it never failed me and it never will, I keep my data on systems I hardly have enabled. These are not connected to the internet.

My home network is more private than the cloud too, I don't trust the cloud, I never will, sorry :X

[Kaiaatzl]

The point about the cloud being immune to fire is a good one hackers, but I tend to think that most of its other advantages can be achieved just by keeping backups on a computer that's not connected to the internet and not used for anything else.

Of course the problem there is that you need the money to buy a computer that you don't even plan to use .

When it comes to backing up my data I always like to rely on myself and not some third party.  Because I know how much my data means to me and how far I want to go to protect it better than anyone else who could do it for me.

[Scyphi]

If there's anything I've learned about the computing world, is that there's never anything that is absolutely immune to hacking or other forms of data loss/corruption. So in this instance, to each their own, and whichever method they prefer.

[VANGUARD]

If there's anything I've learned about the computing world, is that there's never anything that is absolutely immune to hacking or other forms of data loss/corruption. So in this instance, to each their own, and whichever method they prefer.

basically in a nutshell. I prefer the non-cloud approach, some prefer to have it.

[Tylosaurus]

Anyways back to the topic   I was wondering if there were any baseball caps with the Descent, Descent 2 or Descent 3 logo's on them or a Pyro for that same matter?
Personally I have never seen these but it could be that these were made too right as Descent Merchandise products went? I also wonder what happened to the Parallax Software & Vollution Software Company Flags, I guess these were also made, anyways always keep looking they say

[-<WillyP>-]

I can't recall ever seeing any 'official' Descent branded apparel, but there is Planet Descent stuff here:

PlanetDescent:Zazzle.com Store

[Kaiaatzl]

If there's anything I've learned about the computing world, is that there's never anything that is absolutely immune to hacking or other forms of data loss/corruption. So in this instance, to each their own, and whichever method they prefer.

And this is why the best plan that's always advised by experts, is just to have more than one backup in more than one place!
Oh wait, we've moved on.
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