Honestly, I’ve developed a habit of hitting CTRL+S so much that I actually hit the combination even when I’m not typing something. I can’t tell you how many times my browser’s “Save Page” dialog has appeared when just browsing.
Perhaps it does stem from a sense of a paranoia. Unfortunately, it’s not unfounded.
Can you relate?
[HT: PhD Comics]
Matt Phelps says
My high school had (and probably still has) a very unreliable network and computers. (Cheap Dells. I crashed computers regularly by working too fast.) So I got into the habit of saving to my network folder regularly, and an outside server after every class. I think I only had a problem once, but the remote copy saved the day.
Tom says
Definitely! When I was in high school, floppies and USB keys were the norm (you know, long before Dropbox ;)) so I either backed up to that or FTP’d to a hosting account.
Matt Phelps says
Except for my last year, a majority of the computers were running Windows 98, which didn’t support flash drives (even though I used flash drives a lot at home and church). Even after they finally upgraded a majority of the computers (in around ’05) to XP the school store still sold floppies. I didn’t really care, since I found using the internet was easier. Dropbox would have made that so much easier.
The funny part was when we were using MS Access we had to use a floppy or the network would crash. I never could understand why 20 people working with Access could do that. I always made sure to back up the database during and at the end of class (I’ve had bad experiences with floppies). And by the way, this was a near million $ fiber optic and copper network that I could beat with the $500 network at church.
Tom says
To be totally honest, I’ve never used Microsoft Access for anything beyond toying with it.
I had several friends build small apps with it back in the day, but I always stuck with another DBMS’s.
I have heard some horror stories about it, though. Get several people hacking away at it and it’d misbehave.
Yohan Perera says
John,
You are not paranoid? I save a document a hundred times while typing it… It doesn’t hurt as long as you know the Ctrl + S key combination…
Tom says
Exactly 🙂
John says
Actually I wrote an AutoHotkey script that ignores Ctrl+S when I’m in a browser, since I never want to save a web page anyways. 🙂
Tom says
Dude. Nice idea..