Back-ups are great but when the disk just stops working that is 'permanent'.
Regards!
-Thomas Clark
Tim Churches wrote:
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 06:35, Daniel L. Johnson wrote:
You're very close, Wayne! It's permanency that you want.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=permanency
I think the preferred usage in most parts of the former British Empire would be "permanence", but we understand what you mean. However I suspect Wayne was really proposing a neologism, a mixture of "permanence" and "necromancy" (conjuring up the dead) - thus, "permancy" is what one attempts on a dead hard disc in the absence of regular and thorough back-ups.
Tim C
Dan
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 09:23, Wayne Wilson wrote:
So, I am rather afraid that any model that assumes some kind of data permancy (is that a word?) among home users is not going to work.
Then we get into the issue of paying someone to keep copies of your data
with more permancy.
