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  • S Stuart Dootson

    But if that (admittedly nasty, if rare) bug affects you, as you're using OS X, you'll probably be using Time Machine (as it's about the easiest to use backup solution you can find and comes with the OS), so any losses will be minimal. Also makes it very easy to upgrade the HDD as well, as you just need to swap out the drive, boot from the OS X DVD and restore from your Time Machine disk. I know, I've done it.

    Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

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    Vikram A Punathambekar
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    OMG, I thought it was just Christian, there's more than one of them? :omg:

    Cheers, Vikram. (Cracked not one CCC, but two!)

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    • J JimBob SquarePants

      23 hours into my shiny new copy of windows 7. Warning.... your hardrive needs to be scanned for errors. 350gb of movies, music etc wiped out! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

      JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************

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      Christian Graus
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      I gave you a 5. It amuses me that if you post in this forum with a specific explanation of how a Microsoft product has a specific, reproducable bug, or how it has in your instance destroyed all your data, you get 1 votes.

      Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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      • C Christian Graus

        That's never happened to me, and yet, any windows bug that exists, I get hit by.

        Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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        Brady Kelly
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        Christian Graus wrote:

        That's never happened to me, and yet, any windows bug that exists, I get hit by.

        FTFY

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        • S Stuart Dootson

          But if that (admittedly nasty, if rare) bug affects you, as you're using OS X, you'll probably be using Time Machine (as it's about the easiest to use backup solution you can find and comes with the OS), so any losses will be minimal. Also makes it very easy to upgrade the HDD as well, as you just need to swap out the drive, boot from the OS X DVD and restore from your Time Machine disk. I know, I've done it.

          Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

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          Brady Kelly
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          Last time my laptop caught a virus, during a meeting on a Saturday lunch time, AVG could detect but not remove it, I simply invoked the Windows System Restore, to the routine daily restore point created that morning. No more virus. Also comes with the OS.

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          • S Stuart Dootson

            But if that (admittedly nasty, if rare) bug affects you, as you're using OS X, you'll probably be using Time Machine (as it's about the easiest to use backup solution you can find and comes with the OS), so any losses will be minimal. Also makes it very easy to upgrade the HDD as well, as you just need to swap out the drive, boot from the OS X DVD and restore from your Time Machine disk. I know, I've done it.

            Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

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            Electron Shepherd
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            Stuart Dootson wrote:

            you'll probably be using Time Machine

            Just so long as your Time Machine is less than 18 months old, then all the capacitors explode...

            Server and Network Monitoring

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            • B Brady Kelly

              Last time my laptop caught a virus, during a meeting on a Saturday lunch time, AVG could detect but not remove it, I simply invoked the Windows System Restore, to the routine daily restore point created that morning. No more virus. Also comes with the OS.

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              Stuart Dootson
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              Brady Kelly wrote:

              AVG could detect but not remove it

              That's part of the reason I use Avast! on the Windows boxes/VMs I use.

              Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

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              • J JimBob SquarePants

                23 hours into my shiny new copy of windows 7. Warning.... your hardrive needs to be scanned for errors. 350gb of movies, music etc wiped out! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

                JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************

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                wout de zeeuw
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                But ofcourse you got backups!

                Wout

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                • B Brady Kelly

                  JimBob SquarePants wrote:

                  somebody forgot to tell the developers in security about the whole aero revamp thing.

                  Eeew! Like those UI's you get that still look like 16 bit Windows 3. :~

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                  Gary R Wheeler
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                  Visual SourceSafe 2005, anyone? They added resizable dialogs (finally) that start out sized as Windows 3.1 style :rolleyes:.

                  Software Zen: delete this;
                  Fold With Us![^]

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                  • C Christian Graus

                    JimBob SquarePants wrote:

                    Tried a mac once. Could never figure out the one button mouse thing.

                    Apples come with a one button mouse, but they support two. For some retarded reason, the default setup has right click do the same as left, but once you change it, it's all good.

                    Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                    Gary R Wheeler
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                    Christian Graus wrote:

                    the default setup has right click do the same as left

                    Umm... just how is that supposed to work?

                    Software Zen: delete this;
                    Fold With Us![^]

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                    • J JimBob SquarePants

                      23 hours into my shiny new copy of windows 7. Warning.... your hardrive needs to be scanned for errors. 350gb of movies, music etc wiped out! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

                      JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************

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                      Lutoslaw
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                      JimBob SquarePants wrote:

                      350gb of movies, music etc wiped out!

                      And didn't even try to restore them?? I do not believe they all got destroyed in a minute. I would try some recovery software like Undelete or sth.

                      Greetings - Jacek

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                      • L Lutoslaw

                        JimBob SquarePants wrote:

                        350gb of movies, music etc wiped out!

                        And didn't even try to restore them?? I do not believe they all got destroyed in a minute. I would try some recovery software like Undelete or sth.

                        Greetings - Jacek

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                        JimBob SquarePants
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                        I'm doing that just now. Takes time though with the sheer volume of information.

                        JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************

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                        • J JimBob SquarePants

                          23 hours into my shiny new copy of windows 7. Warning.... your hardrive needs to be scanned for errors. 350gb of movies, music etc wiped out! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

                          JimBob SquarePants ******************************************************************* "He took everything personally, including our royalties!" David St.Hubbins, Spinal Tap about Ian Faith, their ex-manager *******************************************************************

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                          Mark_Wallace
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                          DRM errors? :laugh: Sorry. It's not funny, I know.

                          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                          • C Christian Graus

                            That's never happened to me, and yet, any windows bug that exists, I get hit by.

                            Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                            dan sh
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                            A vital part of the M$ source codes:

                            if (user == "CG"){
                            BugGenerator.Start();
                            }

                            It's not necessary to be so stupid, either, but people manage it. - Christian Graus, 2009 AD

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                            • C Christian Graus

                              How does one legally have 350 GB of movies and music ? If it's legal, surely you had a backup ?

                              Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                              Nish Nishant
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                              Christian Graus wrote:

                              How does one legally have 350 GB of movies and music ?

                              Not music, but I probably have more than that in personal family videos and pictures (mostly of Rohan though) :-) And it's all backed up in triplicate!

                              Regards, Nish


                              Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
                              My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com link

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                              • C Christian Graus

                                I gave you a 5. It amuses me that if you post in this forum with a specific explanation of how a Microsoft product has a specific, reproducable bug, or how it has in your instance destroyed all your data, you get 1 votes.

                                Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                                Joe Woodbury
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                                Because it's pretty clear that it wasn't Microsoft's fault. He had a hardware failure that preceded upgrading to Windows 7 and which was corrupting his hard drive. Had he run the check under Vista, he would have lost the data then, instead of later.

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                                • C Christian Graus

                                  JimBob SquarePants wrote:

                                  Tried a mac once. Could never figure out the one button mouse thing.

                                  Apples come with a one button mouse, but they support two. For some retarded reason, the default setup has right click do the same as left, but once you change it, it's all good.

                                  Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                                  Henry Minute
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                                  Clickety-click or wiggle-wiggle, you choose[^]

                                  Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

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