Comments on: Virus Blues http://www.the10000things.com/2007/12/07/virus-blues/ Aqui tienes la sensacion de nacer y perecer cada dia Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:43:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chi Li http://www.the10000things.com/2007/12/07/virus-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-1657 Chi Li Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:16:47 +0000 http://www.the10000things.com/2007/12/07/virus-blues/#comment-1657 The priests of the Temples of Syrinx have spoken- But fear not, reader. I still respect you right and tendency to make stupid, human mistakes; including, should you so choose, the ability to shoot yourself in the foot. The priests of the Temples of Syrinx have spoken-

But fear not, reader. I still respect you right and tendency to make stupid, human mistakes; including, should you so choose, the ability to shoot yourself in the foot.

]]> By: mirick http://www.the10000things.com/2007/12/07/virus-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-1653 mirick Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:55:49 +0000 http://www.the10000things.com/2007/12/07/virus-blues/#comment-1653 I've been a huge fan of partitions since the good old Mac Os9 days. Operating system on one partition, data on another so the moment your OS fucks you off then it's history without a moments concern. Partitions at that time always had to be set up at installation, so if you didn't set it up that way from the get go, you were borked. I hear there are tools to partition drives on an already installed windows machine, but have never used them. You ever used any of these? Personally, I've graduated to a drive for OS and a drive for data, but that's not really an option with laptops. Online solutions are not worth a damn until we get upload rates improve. It's ok for documents, but try backing up 80Gb of music or image files and the whole idea seems mute. Lesson? Back up and often. I use a great little program that has a free and pay version that does me right for external drive backups. <a> SyncBack</a>. Still, its all just ones and zeros after all. I’ve been a huge fan of partitions since the good old Mac Os9 days. Operating system on one partition, data on another so the moment your OS fucks you off then it’s history without a moments concern.

Partitions at that time always had to be set up at installation, so if you didn’t set it up that way from the get go, you were borked. I hear there are tools to partition drives on an already installed windows machine, but have never used them. You ever used any of these? Personally, I’ve graduated to a drive for OS and a drive for data, but that’s not really an option with laptops.

Online solutions are not worth a damn until we get upload rates improve. It’s ok for documents, but try backing up 80Gb of music or image files and the whole idea seems mute.

Lesson? Back up and often. I use a great little program that has a free and pay version that does me right for external drive backups. SyncBack. Still, its all just ones and zeros after all.

]]> By: manunderstress http://www.the10000things.com/2007/12/07/virus-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-1649 manunderstress Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:19:20 +0000 http://www.the10000things.com/2007/12/07/virus-blues/#comment-1649 Always store your data on a separate drive, but yeah, we all know this. With a laptop this isn't always so easy, but just buy an external drive enclosure and a hard drive and make weekly backups. If this is too difficult repartition "C:" (in your case, windows) into two partitions...the OS goes on C: and data goes on D:, that at least will confine OS problems to that partition Another solution might be the forthcoming GDrive or other online storage. I'm using Mozy right now, althought the upload is ridiculously slow, it is cheap at 4.95 per month. This is necessary in the event that your gear is stolen, burned, etc. Always store your data on a separate drive, but yeah, we all know this. With a laptop this isn’t always so easy, but just buy an external drive enclosure and a hard drive and make weekly backups. If this is too difficult repartition “C:” (in your case, windows) into two partitions…the OS goes on C: and data goes on D:, that at least will confine OS problems to that partition

Another solution might be the forthcoming GDrive or other online storage. I’m using Mozy right now, althought the upload is ridiculously slow, it is cheap at 4.95 per month. This is necessary in the event that your gear is stolen, burned, etc.

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