Posted by Roy Schestowitz on 10/16/63 11:25

__/ [rf] on Tuesday 30 August 2005 12:41 \__

> rf wrote:
>>Els wrote:
>
> [installed languages]
>
>> > That's from about a year and a half ago
>
> Do you mean to tell me that you have not re-installed your windows system
> for eighteen months?
>
> Dear girl, you should plan to do it every 3 months or so. I do, I often
> have to.
>
> 1) Clears out all the stuff one is tempted to download and install on a
> whim, those things that simply clutter up the registry and the disk[s].
>
> 2) Makes real sure your backups and so on are up to scratch. If you cannot
> re-install everything, and I mean *everything*, up till a half an hour ago
> during a scheduled refresh then you are stuffed when suddenly your hard
> disk dies. This happens to me about once a year or so[1]. Where is the
> backup of that fine web site you maintain?
>
> I suppose I am a little different to you though. I have seen your
> computer. You have seen my computer room. The other day I installed an
> additional 160[2] gig disk in one of the spare computers to be used
> exclusively as a backup disk for the other six computers. And yes, I have
> backups way back to the early 1980's. The original source code of programs
> that are now obsolete. However, oddly, some of my customers still use that
> software :-)
>
> [1] The first time I lost a disk (many years ago) it caused me about a
> [week
> downtime. I work for myself so I cannot cost this but I guess several
> thousands of dollars.
>
> [2] Less that AU$1 per gig. Cheap as disposables these days. It's cheaper
> for me to add a new backup disk than it is to spend the time to delete the
> rubbish :-)


Richard,

Truly... is it not enough to convince that Windows is a Toy O/S? I have run
SuSE for 2 years and it is still as fast as it was in day one... and it has
about 3 GB of software installed.

Speaking of which, Vista will be worse in terms of hardware requirements
[1]... much worse, so brace yourself (or spend more money on a new machine
with new software licences).


[1]
http://www.xyzcomputing.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=411&Itemid=26

"...If this was not enough to turn people off from Vista, there are the
hardware requirements..."


> <aside>
> Bill Gates notices a $50 note in the gutter as he promenades down the
> sidewalk. Does he pick it up?
>
> No. It would cost him more to stop/stoop/snatch than to continue on the
> the meeting he is due to attend.
> </aside>

Stop. *friendly smile* That's from Brad Templeton (at least a variant of
it). He hates it when people copy that.

http://www.templetons.com/brad/billg.html

"Copyright 1997-9 Brad Templeton. Second photo courtesy Philip Greenspun.
Please don't copy this article, but feel free to link to it on the web."

Roy

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Roy S. Schestowitz "Seeing bad movies only encourages them"
http://Schestowitz.com

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