Saturday, April 16, 2016

Guy accidentally deletes his entire company with just one line of bad code and other top stories.

  • Guy accidentally deletes his entire company with just one line of bad code

    Guy accidentally deletes his entire company with just one line of bad code
    If you're feeling a little down today, spare a thought for poor Marco Marsala, a web hosting provider who accidentally deleted his entire company with a single line of bad code this week.  By entering code telling his computer to delete everything, Marsala also inadvertently wiped everything on his servers - including all the offsite backups. He posted the dilemma on tech forum ServerFault where it quickly became apparent that there was no way to reverse what he'd done. In other words... damn. ..
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  • Your Apple Watch Has a Life Span: Its Maker Says Three Years

    Your Apple Watch Has a Life Span: Its Maker Says Three Years
    Announcement Comes Nine Days Before The Device’s First Birthday April 24,2015 was a big day for Apple and its fans. It was the launch of the Apple Watch. If you read the company’s environment page on Thursday, however, you might be a bit surprised to learn that Apple thinks you will only keep that watch for three years. In fact, if you happen to be one of the customers who spent thousands on the most expensive version, you might be downright upset. Where Apple Gets Its Data Apple’s environment ..
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  • Virgin Mobile Allows Customers to Redeem Unused Data

    Virgin Mobile Allows Customers to Redeem Unused Data
    Data subscription plans for mobile devices are still quite expensive in every part of the world where it is offered. What's more, if you're planning on saving it for emergency reasons and it turns out such events never really comes, the data allowance ...
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  • Must-know developments for upcoming and ongoing betas: 'Mirror's Edge Catalyst,' 'Overwatch,' 'Doom' and more

    Must-know developments for upcoming and ongoing betas: 'Mirror's Edge Catalyst,' 'Overwatch,' 'Doom' and more
    April is bringing a lot of games on beta. As such, it’s good to know which ones are coming in early so players can keep watch out what to queue and play. ‘Mirror’s Edge Catalyst’ A closed beta will run for “Mirror’s Edge Catalyst” from April 22 to 26. DICE is holding the beta run to ensure that the launch will go as smoothly as possible. Over at the official website, the developer revealed that there are two types of testers. Frontrunners will receive an email with the beta code on April 22, w..
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  • Protecting nature: there are apps for that

    Protecting nature: there are apps for that
    San Francisco (AFP) -- Apple on Thursday set out to inspire people to protect nature with a special collection of apps whose proceeds will go toward doing just that. The technology powerhouse behind the iPhone and the iPad worked with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and developers from around the globe to launch Apps for Earth at its online App Store. Through April 24, all proceeds from the participating apps will go to WWF, the conservation group said. "With Apps for Earth, we're helping to infor..
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  • Chrome 50 Release Ends Support for Legacy Windows and OS X Versions

    Chrome 50 Release Ends Support for Legacy Windows and OS X Versions
    TOP OF THE NEWS   APRIL 16, 2016 COMMUNICATIONS Mitel Buys Polycom for $1.96 Billion Aiming to better compete with Cisco.
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Economists looked at jobs, RBA, finance .Brisbane traffic: Jogger hit by car in Brisbane's north .
Symantec Internet Security Threat Report - Australia is a top 10 target .Tradie cuts free man pinned by beam at Brisbane Caltex servo .

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