Giving this a look.

I haz a Blog. It is Delicious. I haz a GAEM. It is a work in progress.

I don't have any hidden partitions or anything in particular that I would like to save. A ghost image of my current drive state as is would be idea.

I haz a Blog. It is Delicious. I haz a GAEM. It is a work in progress.

What software are you using for Imaging? Do you intent to work entirely from a vm?

I haz a Blog. It is Delicious. I haz a GAEM. It is a work in progress.

Is there company or person out in the world that would back up my data to such an extent? I totally would hire someone if I knew who would do that for a reasonable price.

I haz a Blog. It is Delicious. I haz a GAEM. It is a work in progress.

Yeah that sounds like it takes a lot of time money and work. But thanks for the info. Did you build your own NAS or purchase one?

I haz a Blog. It is Delicious. I haz a GAEM. It is a work in progress.

So I'm a remote software developer looking for a relatively simple and easy backup and restoring option as I am responsible for managing my own tech. What I have: -I have remote source control backup (Visual Studio Online\Github) -I have GDrive synced for my important files. I was looking at carbonite (they require an external hard drive) and this article by Scott Hanselman (NAS backup). My Ideal Setup -Does not take up room on my current hard drive -Can be done via network -Does not require my laptop to physically hook into an external hard drive or other device. -Can be done (or scripted) to work passively -If possible I would like an image of my hard drive -If my drive stops working I'd like to have a mirror up painlessly. (I have an SSD so I'm a little worried about how things will end) -Allows me to work at different locations without carrying an external hard drive that can be dropped and damaged. Maybe I'm being to demanding for what I want. Or maybe I'm just too lazy. Let me know what you all think. Is there an ideal solution for folks on the go? Or any suggestions. What are your Backup and Restore Solutions ?

I haz a Blog. It is Delicious. I haz a GAEM. It is a work in progress.

Paul M Watt wrote:

The way I see it, you are in a perfect position to learn what the customer really wants rather than guessing, and writing software dictated by some marketing research. This sort of experience will be invaluable to you as you progress in your career.

I hadn't thought of it that way. I guess I'm in a good position to level up UX and my general user interactions. Nice article by the way. I think I'll read over it again before the next time I think about talking to management about improvements. You totally had me pegged in the opening scenario. I guess, for me, what it boils down to is that I will just have to make the time for the things I think will make a difference.

I haz a Blog. It is Delicious. I haz a GAEM. It is a work in progress.

Awwwww.... I am but a small fish in a huge pond as far as GameDev but thank you for the compliment. But I do enjoy the heck out of it anyway.

I haz a Blog. It is Delicious. I haz a GAEM. It is a work in progress.

Thats a pretty good idea. I could whip out an installer for patch gen updates or something like that pretty easy.

I haz a Blog. It is Delicious. I haz a GAEM. It is a work in progress.

Well I'm doing what makes me happy on the side anyway.. Making a game. But its not the sorta thing I expect to make enough to live off of anyway. My wip game stuff[^]

I haz a Blog. It is Delicious. I haz a GAEM. It is a work in progress.

Thanks for the feedback. It was much appreciated. Its all to easy for me to have another gig though. Like most devs I get the recruiters calls and email a few times a month. The temptation is there but, I'd imagine those jobs wouldn't be a whole lot better. Especially not for the remote work situation.

I haz a Blog. It is Delicious. I haz a GAEM. It is a work in progress.

Yeah I didn't realize I had my name up here. If anyone i guess maybe the other developer at the company but I think he falls into the dark matter dev category so.... probably not.

I haz a Blog. It is Delicious. I haz a GAEM. It is a work in progress.

Dear CP forum people, I'm stuck in a bit of a rut and looking for some outside perspective from other developers. So I've been working for this company for about 9 months (remote) and have been doing some level of tech support and product installation with the understanding that I would be doing this until I have a solid understanding of the product. Well this isn't true so much anymore and now this is an indefinite thing because I need to be available as an alternate to the other 2 tech support\deployment folks. I've been screwing up pretty bad on the tech support side as I have a really hard time with doing tech support and coding combined and have an even harder time doing arbitrary processes related "things" for the sake of doing them instead of trying to improve them and streamline. The situation has gotten to the point where I do very little actual coding from week to week if not after hours. I have made a number of suggestions throughout the course of my time at this company on ways we could cut down as a whole on install\deployment if we automate the software deployment workflow and simplify some things about the UX for ease of product usage instead of writing a ton more documentation and throwing more Tech Support at it. I've made suggestions about this for quite some time but it doesn't seem like I'm really getting anywhere and I spend more time worrying about tech support related issues than anything else. Much of it comes from them being a company that had 1 programmer who was the CTO and part-owner up until now and this person has largely been unfamiliar with any architectural design or good programming practices. (i.e. lots of copy paste and single letter variables, deploys via windows form app and lots of copying and pasting in vb.net 2.0 up until recently ) The biggest reasons for me wanting to stay are that I have more time with my daughter by working from home, the hours are not bad, the pay is good and that I've hopped around a good bit,sometimes as a contractor and sometimes not, for about once a year up until now and I'm really not trying to be labeled a "flight risk" either. I'm trying to stick it out but I'm not sure I see things getting better. I do love what I do when what I do is software development and design. More specifically, creating or improving software systems in ways that make life easier for developers, customers and co-workers. I see a lot of potential for doing that in this job but given the current constraints and maybe my instability to provide a convincin

You could do some Clojure or Iron Scheme which are both considered dialects of Lisp. Also I'd check out Lisp in the real world. Also these

• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CommercialLispApplications[^]
• https://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/55284/is-lisp-still-useful-in-todays-world-which-version-is-most-used[^]
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Common_Lisp_software[^]

I haz a Blog. It is Delicious.

Lazy..... Too lazy to take a math test willingly to see how good I am at math.

I haz a Blog. It is Delicious.

I think the word to meaning changes have much to do with the Linus Torvalds[^] absolutely hating the way svn, tfs and others did things and deciding to develop git in a vacuum (sort of speak) as in completely throwing the baby out with the bath water in terms of the conventions that developers were familiar with and starting over from scratch. Like learning Chinese and then learning Spanish. They both have ways of saying I am hungry but that is where the similarities end. Note: I know nothing of either languages but, it was a wild guess that they have no influence on each other.

I haz a Blog. It is Delicious.

Have you considered just bringing it to their attention that they are really loud?