Yep. The home hard drive train wreck was bad. Couldn't get my stuff back. I'm still bitter about that. But that was a very long time ago, and I learned my lesson. The Sun hard drive crash was no big deal because all the files I lost (only 10 gigs or so) on my laptop were also safely sitting on the Sun Ray server. Nice.
I love having my stuff on that server. It's safe there, and that's where it belongs. On the contrary, I hate owning my very own hard drive stuffed into a fat client computer that I have to then manage, protect, upgrade, vaccinate, and worry about. I use my Sun Ray most of the time for just this reason. (I really need to get my Sun Ray at home, too.) I also use a laptop (running the Sun Java Desktop System on the Solaris 10 platform), but, well, it's a PC, so I expect it to break. Without notice. Several times, in fact. Thankfully, though, this is no longer an issue for me because of that handy dandy Sun Ray server over there in the data center.
I wonder if Bill would get Heather her very own Sun Ray. Just wondering.
