Thank you Microsoft!
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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
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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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
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...
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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.
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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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 *******************************************************************
But ofcourse you got backups!
Wout
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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. :~
Visual SourceSafe 2005, anyone? They added resizable dialogs (finally) that start out sized as Windows 3.1 style :rolleyes:.
Software Zen:
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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.
Christian Graus wrote:
the default setup has right click do the same as left
Umm... just how is that supposed to work?
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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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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
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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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 *******************************************************************
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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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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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.
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
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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.
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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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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