C4 notes: Pizza and pie shakes
The C4 indie Mac developer conference in Chicago is decidedly different. Different in that it's the brainchild not of some conference and expo company, but of one guy -- developer Jonathan "Wolf" Rentzsch. Different in that it's in Chicago. Different in that it's steadfastly a small event, happening over a weekend and with a relatively small capacity that makes it awfully hard to get into.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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