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jammerjam writes "My WD 120GB drive got its MBR scrambled so it no longer mounts in my W*ndoze box (I can recover the data so I know that's intact). But now that's made me realize I need to implement my data backup plan. Scouring the Internet I can't find a reliable resource for home NAS solutions. For every positive review I can find a negative that refutes it. My first choice from what I found starts at $1200...I've got $500. Anyone have a suggestion? I'm not looking for enterprise-level storage here — but I do want reliability."
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blah, the right come-back was Steve is that you? :-D
I read as far as "W*ndoze" and then just gave up on the article. If the submitter cannot act like an adult and not a 12 year old using 'witty insulting names' (ahem) for things then I really can't be bothered to waste my time on him. This is Slashdot, a public forum full of people from all walks of life, this is not a playground, we expect at least some sort of maturity beyond the level shown in this article.
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Anyone have opinions on Fedora behavior?
I have just been trying to do this with a laptop that dual-boots windows xp and ubuntu. GRUB had a bit of a fit, and I needed to boot the windows CD to check the NTFS partition / possibly reinstall windows.
I discovered that the Windows Install CD will not start the install and recovery process if you have ext2 / ext3 partitions on the disk. Also, I have had times when MBRs were so badly damaged that, once again, Windows Install CD wouldn't even start - it would crash after detecting hardware.
I hate windows. So much. I'd just go with ubuntu on this machine, but I'm trying to fix it for someone and they have some windows-only hardware and software that they'd like to use. They have ubuntu on the machine because I am hoping that they'll use that for web browsing so they can stop coming to me every few days with enormous amounts of spyware and trojans on their machine (even with adblock plus, noscript, avg, spybot, etc. installed). No matter how many times you tell them not to click on anything dodgy and to google for information about any program they're downloading they still won't listen. I guess the siren call of 'OMGWTF!!! FREE FUNNY VIDEOS!!!' or 'FREE GAMES AND WALLPAPER LOLZ!' is too much for some to ignore.
*sigh*
The only reason I've stuck with Firefox instead of switching to Opera is because there are Firefox extensions that I absolutely depend on. I tested out Firefox 3, and I would switch to it this instant if the extensions were compatible with it.
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1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual.
OS X is pretty much exactly what you described.
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