On 21/02/2013 15:09, David wrote:
On 2/21/2013 9:55 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
On 21/02/2013 14:31, David wrote:
On 2/21/2013 5:28 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 02/18/2013 08:15 AM, jonc wrote:
On 02/18/2013 03:34 AM, Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 18:05 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
Am going to look into this....as I want to "build" a server at home,
and see what I can do with it.....maybe some form of central
information repository?......I'll think of something!
Having a central server is very useful. You can store *your* files on
it, your mail on it, etc, instead of on the computer that you use, and
they'll always be there. Then, you can try out different distros and
software on a client computer, without losing any of your personal
stuff.
Useful, also, for backups, especially a backup of a separate home
partition if you do change distributions often. You can easily set up
a separate home partition and include it, unscathed, in any new setup,
but having that backup is a very good thing.
Well I've learned my lesson when it comes to backups. (Lost an entire 2
year's worth of data, pictures, movies, files, folders, and music!) I
was using Windows 2000 at the time, and was constantly under pressure
from my current job at the time, which left me in a tizzy on a daily
basis! I had the PC up and running at home, and everything seemed to be
working, (I mean what could POSSIBLY go wrong!?...right? It was Windows
2000 we're talking about..the "latest and greatest"...RIGHT?..LoL!)
Needless to say I had come home thinking I was going to be able to
download some files from work, only to find my machine in a "Blue
Screen" state, and it never recovered after that, I even went so far as
to try to access the files taking the HD out and putting it in a
different machine, but whatever happened? it completely fried my
drive.....from THAT day forward...I make an incremental backup at the
end of EVERY week! And then I duplicate THAT to an external USB storage
drive, which then gets placed in a Folder on my Linux Mint
box.....(that's right!....I will NEVER lose "My Stuff" EVER again!)
Win2K is kinda' old.
No aero, no metro, relatively little bloat (by Windows standards) -
what's not to like? :) Newest and most bleeding edge isn't always the
best. Most of the time it isn't even good (distribution packagers - take
note!).
Aero can be disabled. KDE and Gnome also have Aero settings. Windows 8
looks, and acts, like my smartphone.
Win2K is 13 years old. No longer supported so no updates or security
patches. Since it cost in the neighborhood od $300 there is a strong
possibility it was a pirated copy. Which can be a security problem.
Win2K3 64-bit is almost the same as 64-bit XP. The least bad version of
Windows to date, IMO (not that the bar is particularly high).
And since you mentioned it - it isn't out of support yet. XP is
supported until April 2014, and 2K3 is supported until July 2015, IIRC.
As for the blue screen? That is / was a error
report and had you actually read it it would have told what had crashed,
usually a hardware driver which are provided by the hardware
manufacturer, and how to fix it.
Did you _actually_ read the original post? If the FS was trashed to the
point where another machine couldn't mount and read it, troubleshooting
the BSOD issue itself wouldn't have helped in the slightest.
So you are saying that before 'you' learned just what caused this damage
you would just happily install another drive in the suspect machine and
carry on?
I would have happily put the drive into another machine running Linux,
mount it and try to salvage any important data of it, yes.
And installing a trashed drive in a different machine was not a great
idea either. That *might* have resulted in two trashed machines.
Now you're just FUD-ing.
Gordan
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