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Fed. agency: ‘New phenomenon’ caused WTC 7 collapse

Metal expanding due to heat — aka “thermal expansion” — is a “new phenomenon,” according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Yet their report on how World Trade Center 7 mysteriously collapsed is drawing criticism from a large group of professional architects and engineers, who want to know what the agency is covering up.

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Back Up a Web Server

So you’re a good little monkey and you have a backup strategy for all your local PCs. Perhaps you use rsync, Time Machine or similar backup software mirroring your files to external drives on a regular basis. That is some safe thinking that deserves a nice big pat on the back. But wait, what about your remote web server? More>>