LCD is nice...I know, I own a Sony LCD screen, but unfortunately the tranformator got busted and I have to wait for a new one for over a month. After 6 months the first dead pixel showed up...So I guess, next time I'll be more wise and shell out the cash for a big CRT:-(
i can't recall the name MS gave to there hosts file
MS is very creative because they called it hosts! Incredible, isn't it? It is in [system32dir]\drivers\etc\ for NT4 (and W2K). If you haven't got one, there is a hosts.sam file which is a sample host file. Remove the.sam edit it, and it runs. Same for lmhosts by the way.
Some days ago I saw the first commercials on TV here in Europe (on german TV) for Office XP. Yup... I didn't know it shipped yet by the way, so it could be pre-order or so. Of course I said, oh, crap! Liars! But then I guess that there are more secretaries (or managers) watching TV swallowing those lies, than halfway informed geeks. I don't remember the slogans, but "making things easier" was definately one of them.
This is blatant copy of the post #43 , which made me laugh and was not moderated funny.
On the serious part: I don't like the idea because, without context, a word can mean very different things. Look at censoring software: I used the words "sexy gal" on my personal webpage somewhere and, at a bank where I worked, the censoring software blocked it because it was "pr0n"...The page blocked was showing old pictures of my family. This feature will have the same effects: I use "sexy gal" and it could link to http://www.lolitagirls.com or so....Not my idea, when the context doesn't indicate porgnography at all.
But then, probably I'm wrong?
You told exactly what was on my mind. Until 6 months ago I used my old P120 (32Meg RAM) laptop with 95 and I could do anything I needed. Okay, coding Java was not an option, but surfing chatting email, making my timesheet, ebanking, such stuff... I could even play MP3's while using the computer, provided I put it on mono.
Why did it run well after all those years? Simple, one thing I was very picky at was memory consumption: this means, if I don't need the service, I just don't run it. The Run, and Services key in the registry were closely watched by me. Cleaning up the registry regularly helped too. Don't install every shareware proggy you come accross, etc.... Probably this memory paranoia came from my old DOS days...and the registry paranoia quickly came after my first W95 reinstall. Besides, I never came across a program that didn't want to run on 95 so "upgrading" to 98 was never an option. (NT4 neither, because I realise the hardware couldn't have supported it beyond SP3)
The problem with factory defaults is that they are a common denominator of what Marketing (?) thinks will be usefull. ) I have seen newly bought preinstalled PC's with 64Meg RAM (this was some years ago) that had a memory usage of 80Meg in idle! (That is: directly after bootup) Ever noticed how many icons most people have in their icontray? (and that is mostly the top of the iceberg) Realplayer, why do I want that running all the time? Same for that ICQ webdetect agent: come on, I know when I'm online. Oh, and one big spoiler...needed for nothing at all: in Start-> Startup folder you'll find Office Startup (OSA.EXE), now honestly, I don't care that Word starts up in 1 minute or 3 minutes....I have to wait anyway, let's use it to make some tea. Besides, if you wondered what happened to the P120? It is happily running it's old days as a Linux experimental machine.:-)
Sorry, I don't think the manyserver/CD-server architecture would be a usefull one. Not for a terribly big site. It could work well, for let's say a personal webserver on a DSL line owned by someone who is really paranoid...someone with really too may 486 in spare;-) Seriousely:
How do you update such webpage? It is on a CD and thus unwritable. You will need to make a new CD each time a single letter is changed. Of course one could postpone all changes until you have some significant changes...
Live changes: as seen often pages are put down (or up) very fast because of some reason (Incorrect information, important press release...)
Databases? How many serious websites are not at least partially using databases. How are you going to represent something on a CD-Rom that is as dynamic as a DB? You can't! And I didn't even start about synching updates....
How about performance? CD-Rom's are not fast at all. I realise of course that every server will have a local mirror of the CD on a fast harddisk that will be copied every time.
Security: the weak link in the chain is the CD-Rom server! It must have network access to the other machines. This means, you need to crack a server and have let's say 24 hours to crack (15 minutes, reboot? Come-one...not even Windows 3.11 needed that) which is for a good cracker probably not a problem. Once on the server machine, even not being able to write data to the CD-Rom, you can alter the scripts that copy the CD-Rom to the other servers to include defacing messages or so.
I'm sure that my view is not entirely correct because I'm only responsible for a small server with the only restriction is that availability must be very high (but not 24/24 7-7). In my view, the setup you described, would be useful to keep a computerlab synchronized with a standard install, but that really would be it.
Sorry to hear about the rippoff danish system. I know that the MiniCash system doesn't cost anything for the card (it is standard on any debet-card), but the recharge costs a small amount. I never ever saw it used by anyone in shops (they don't take it where I buy my newspapers), but it works very well to pay parking. It's the only thing where I saw people use it, actually.
At launch the Proton card, did cost money, so it really slowed down introduction. (Or it could have been the terminals that were expensive or so...) They changed that and with a good publicity campaign it became more wildely known. As for usage statistics: it's been a while since I was shopping in Belgium, so I don't really known. When I was there, I saw people buy bread using it. The proton card is available without the debet-card combo, and the MiniCash is not...which makes the two quite different. (Would give a proton to a kid, but not a MiniCash)
The whole thing is a bit sad, because the idea is okay...but the implementations are really crappy. The terminals should not cost a thing to the shopkeepers (which they do I think) because these would be shops where you typically use coins...the extra cost of a terminal is simply too huge. On the other hand, the consumer is not willing to pay to recharge his cards... It's a tie, unless somebody want to pay these systems are bound to stay unpopular. I don't mind the 0,2€ they ask for charging the card...when, loading the maximum amount of 50€, it's just 0,375%.
Non, comme je dis: c'est la partie humaine qui compte a ce niveau. Le particulier aura de toute façon des problèmes a se convertir, donc pourquoi l'effrayer? Un produit comme celui décrit est surement Euro-ready au niveau technique... donc coté financier des recharges de 12,78€, 25,56€ ou 51,31€ ne font aucune difference. Probablement il y aura un lien entre le numéro et le volume de la charge: le jour ou l'euro est introduit definitivement on vendra des cartes a 10€,25€ et 50€. C'est simple. Tout est dans la tête du commain du mortel: il s'habituera a l'euro parce qu'il en sera obligé, pas parce qu'un produit l'utilise. Si un un produit utilise l'euro, il ne l'adoptera tout simplement pas! Donc, pour la seule raison *virtuelle* que l'euro arrivera en 2002 (virtuelle car l'euro est *déja* là), tu dis qu'il devraient attendre 3 mois pour le lancement? Probablement en pleine période de confusion totale... car j'ai un fort doute que la conversion se fera sur des roulettes. (Au niveau mental, pas technique!)
En résumé, bien qu'il n'y a aucune raison technique (ni financiere, ni informatique) pour lancer ce système en Euro, il y a une bonne au niveau pychologique. Je sais bien que le marketing n'est pas bien vu ici sur slashdot, mais parfois ces mecs font leur boulot bien. Dans ce cas ci, ils *ont* pensé!
On the other hand, it is quite impolite to discuss this topic in french on an anglophonic forum. It was quite a wild guess talking french to me, because, I am a Flemish Belgian....this means my mother tongue is dutch and not french:-)
Not really crazy, but practical. Look, first of all, you got it wrong: technically no Euro currency exists anymore on it's own...Technically seen, by spending my franks (local currency), I *am* spending my Euro's. My existing coins and bills are just placeholders for the Euro's. That is the way I see it, and so do banks: internally there is just a one-to-one mapping, new accounts are exclusively Euro etc...
Secondly, you forget the human part of currency. People are fond of their franks/marks/whatever, and don't want to change. Imagine advertising a new service that *only* uses the yet unknown Euro: that is simply not a good idea, because people won't buy it. My bet is that they just chose a certain amount in DM, and that actually internally the Euro representation will be used.
This system, also known as an "electronic wallet" is known all over Europe. Well, okay, sorry....I know it for two other countries, but I guess it exists in many other ones. The Belgian system is called proton (warning: shitty flash site) and the system in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is MiniCash .
One of the big disadvantages is that those systems are not compatible from one country to another. This is especially frustrating for people like me (Belgian living in Luxembourg) who don't like to carry around cash. I use my MiniCash just to pay parking place, and that's it.
I don't think either of those two systems support online shopping. (At least it is not advertised) Homogenizing those systems all over Europe could be a solution and a primary step towards using these systems online, but unfortunately I don't know enough of the internals to think of a solution.
Actually that is a user problem, if one could teach people that RTF works well and they can easily save in that format under office (any version) there is no problem. Besides, I heard "yes but I have Office 2000 and my bussiness partner only Office 95 so he has to upgrade" I just show them the "save as 95 document" (or RTF for the matter) and they look at me in amazement. Okay, I agree, rendering is not always perfectly the same, but to do bussiness it is about content, not about layout! (And embedded excell sheets don't work, but I don't see those very often)
/. has a history in this, just recall "Mir is going up"..and two articles later "Mir is going down". Same for Iridium. I think someone at slashdot likes JoJo's;-)
At the beginning of last year I wanted to switch to Linux definately. I did so for 2 months, and then I came back! Why? For one sole reason (and it isn't for Microsoft): I missed Eudora. Though I looked around, I didn't found a eMail client that did everything Eudora did for me. Oh, and yes, I know it does crash occasionally (Windows & Eudora both) but on this one I prefer ease of use and the powerfull featureset over stability.
I still use Linux for learning, I've got a second machine for toying around, experimenting with different distributions of with *BSD, but for my daily email I use W2K with Eudora.
I would love to be one of the/. crowd who is able to use exclusively Linux: but I'm not (able to) and I prefer to admit that I'm a lame Windows NT4 and W2K user.
Yes, indeed: the first "office" applications I came across were Symphony and Wordperfect 4 (?). I did some basic accounting with Symphony (which was excellent, and had nice graphing capabilities.) I wrote my letters with Wordperfect (layout was quite hard, especially when playing with graphics...anyone recall WPG?). Well of course I was 14 at that time, but does that really matter? Besides, "office" applications existed way before IBM-clones. I still have a Sinclair QL lying around and I'm positively sure it came with a spreadsheet.
Initially the bundled office applications were distinct packages: you could buy Word, and Excel, etc for outrageous prices. I recall my dad buying Excel 4 for big bucks. Oh, well, as I said memories:-)
Thanks for the info... I knew it was XFree (or at least a flavor of X) because I scared the hell out of my sister by pushing Ctrl-Alt-BS while she screamed "Ick! You broke it!".
I know where Lyon is: I'm European myself and have quite some french friends...one of which studied in Lyon. But of course you coudn't know that;-) Paris is as exciting for a small-town-guy like me than for Americans: you know, the kind that say: "I go to Europe this summer" -- "Oh, great, are you going to visit the Eiffel Tower?" They are quite funny when they do that.
Now, I am one of those spoiled Europeans that can easily get those TDI you are talking about (they nearly give them away as goodies as company cars). I didn't choose one to get one. I drove VW and Audi 1.9TDI and 2.5TDI from friends. Yes, even the 150HP version. It is very nice, but on lower RPM's it is *just* a diesel...lack of response, and a truck feeling nevertheless. The acceleration, as soon as you hit the pedal hard and the turbo starts, is quite okay, but nothing I didn't have in a plain Audi 80 1.8 fuel. If you drive as few kilometers as me (about 15000 per years), diesels are in fact more expensive. Well, that's what I read:-) Besides, the real kick are the turbo's in classic fuel cars, get a look at those nice 1.8T (the one I have, 225HP...funky) and 2.7T engines Audi makes...of course, you don't have to mind the mileage;-)
When I visiting Paris some weeks ago, one of the points I visited was "La Grande Arche". They had (free) internet kiosks with touchscreens. Now, one thing was clear after using it 5 seconds: it was no Redmond OS. I'm not sure if it was Linux, but they used Mozilla (slighly modified or skinned I'd say). It worked quite well except the touchscreens were actually imprecise but that could be a hardware issue. I'm not sure why, but X restarted about every 10 minutes: might be to force people not to use it too long. Well, I could check my mail for free, so it was usefull;-) No clue if they had a disk or not, I guess they were dumb clients mounted on NFS...
Bernouilli is old Iomega technology. Very reliable! I didn't find much references on the product on their site, but it is one of their products: look here .
Lose data every few months?
Eh? Now, I own a Jaw 1GB and it must be 5 years
old now. All the media I have (about 7 disks) have the same age. I never, ever lost a single byte on those disks, though one of the media was used for a long time as a secondary harddisk (the others as backup media).
I also own a Zip 100 Internal SCSI, which died
about two months ago. Up until the drive died, I
never lost any data on the zip disks I owned
(about 15 pieces). Of course, now I do not know
if I lost anything because Iomega doesn't ship
internal SCSI drives anymore. (And no, USB or
external SCSI doesn't work on that computer, yes
it is an older computer)
And now for the nostalgic of us: I also owned a dual Iomega Bernouilli 90 drive. Now those drives rocked in the time harddisk were a mere 100Meg big. Oh, and, no, I never lost a single byte of data on those drives either. Hey, I should just get them out of the box and try if they still work. Last time I looked, the drivers for Zip/Jaz do support the Bernouilli. Just take a look at the.ico folders on your Windows partition...I bet it has an icon called Bernouilli or something similar.
I guess I can be called an Iomega fan, because for me their hardware just worked fine. (Anybody got a working Internal SCSI Zip drive for sale? Anybody? )
your country DOES have complete and total control over it's own two letter TLD
Oh, but I gladly would do that, except that to get one of those you have to shell out big bucks and prove you are actually an organization or a commercial entity. Alas, I am an individual and cannot prove such things. I think www.jawtheshark.lu looks much cooler than the ones I've got. But for my.com,.net and.org I only needed to fill in a form, shell out 12 EUR per domain and that was it. Of course I only have domain names out of vanity, but that doens't matter, does it?
Yes! You're so right: my multi-partition strategy on my machines has saved my *ss numerous times. (Especially since backing up is not my strongest point).
Actually, the people whom you talk about (secretaries, etc...) probably use a certain Remond OS. I can tell you that, when well deployed, it is not confusing for them. Consider this: theý know "My Documents" which should be where they store important data. So alter the registry and make it point to another partition. Done!
Okay, actually it's a tad more difficult with 2000 or NT4, but then, since they prolly are in a network you should use roaming profiles.:-) I heared they have mountpoints in 2000 now too, so, perhaps even registry hacking is not needed anymore...
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LCD is nice...I know, I own a Sony LCD screen, but unfortunately the tranformator got busted and I have to wait for a new one for over a month. After 6 months the first dead pixel showed up...So I guess, next time I'll be more wise and shell out the cash for a big CRT :-(
MS is very creative because they called it hosts! Incredible, isn't it? It is in [system32dir]\drivers\etc\ for NT4 (and W2K). If you haven't got one, there is a hosts.sam file which is a sample host file. Remove the .sam edit it, and it runs.
Same for lmhosts by the way.
Some days ago I saw the first commercials on TV here in Europe (on german TV) for Office XP. Yup... I didn't know it shipped yet by the way, so it could be pre-order or so. Of course I said, oh, crap! Liars! But then I guess that there are more secretaries (or managers) watching TV swallowing those lies, than halfway informed geeks. I don't remember the slogans, but "making things easier" was definately one of them.
This is blatant copy of the post #43 , which made me laugh and was not moderated funny.
On the serious part: I don't like the idea because, without context, a word can mean very different things. Look at censoring software: I used the words "sexy gal" on my personal webpage somewhere and, at a bank where I worked, the censoring software blocked it because it was "pr0n"...The page blocked was showing old pictures of my family.
This feature will have the same effects: I use "sexy gal" and it could link to http://www.lolitagirls.com or so....Not my idea, when the context doesn't indicate porgnography at all.
But then, probably I'm wrong?
Why did it run well after all those years? Simple, one thing I was very picky at was memory consumption: this means, if I don't need the service, I just don't run it. The Run, and Services key in the registry were closely watched by me. Cleaning up the registry regularly helped too. Don't install every shareware proggy you come accross, etc.... Probably this memory paranoia came from my old DOS days...and the registry paranoia quickly came after my first W95 reinstall. Besides, I never came across a program that didn't want to run on 95 so "upgrading" to 98 was never an option. (NT4 neither, because I realise the hardware couldn't have supported it beyond SP3)
The problem with factory defaults is that they are a common denominator of what Marketing (?) thinks will be usefull. ) I have seen newly bought preinstalled PC's with 64Meg RAM (this was some years ago) that had a memory usage of 80Meg in idle! (That is: directly after bootup) :-)
Ever noticed how many icons most people have in their icontray? (and that is mostly the top of the iceberg) Realplayer, why do I want that running all the time? Same for that ICQ webdetect agent: come on, I know when I'm online. Oh, and one big spoiler...needed for nothing at all: in Start-> Startup folder you'll find Office Startup (OSA.EXE), now honestly, I don't care that Word starts up in 1 minute or 3 minutes....I have to wait anyway, let's use it to make some tea.
Besides, if you wondered what happened to the P120? It is happily running it's old days as a Linux experimental machine.
Seriousely:
- How do you update such webpage? It is on a CD and thus unwritable. You will need to make a new CD each time a single letter is changed. Of course one could postpone all changes until you have some significant changes...
- Live changes: as seen often pages are put down (or up) very fast because of some reason (Incorrect information, important press release...)
- Databases? How many serious websites are not at least partially using databases. How are you going to represent something on a CD-Rom that is as dynamic as a DB? You can't! And I didn't even start about synching updates....
- How about performance? CD-Rom's are not fast at all. I realise of course that every server will have a local mirror of the CD on a fast harddisk that will be copied every time.
- Security: the weak link in the chain is the CD-Rom server! It must have network access to the other machines. This means, you need to crack a server and have let's say 24 hours to crack (15 minutes, reboot? Come-one...not even Windows 3.11 needed that) which is for a good cracker probably not a problem. Once on the server machine, even not being able to write data to the CD-Rom, you can alter the scripts that copy the CD-Rom to the other servers to include defacing messages or so.
I'm sure that my view is not entirely correct because I'm only responsible for a small server with the only restriction is that availability must be very high (but not 24/24 7-7). In my view, the setup you described, would be useful to keep a computerlab synchronized with a standard install, but that really would be it.But then, did I feel a troll?
I just see I screwed up the numbers:
0,15€ as recharge fee, on max amount 50€, is 0,2%. Sorry...
At launch the Proton card, did cost money, so it really slowed down introduction. (Or it could have been the terminals that were expensive or so...) They changed that and with a good publicity campaign it became more wildely known. As for usage statistics: it's been a while since I was shopping in Belgium, so I don't really known. When I was there, I saw people buy bread using it. The proton card is available without the debet-card combo, and the MiniCash is not...which makes the two quite different. (Would give a proton to a kid, but not a MiniCash)
The whole thing is a bit sad, because the idea is okay...but the implementations are really crappy. The terminals should not cost a thing to the shopkeepers (which they do I think) because these would be shops where you typically use coins...the extra cost of a terminal is simply too huge. On the other hand, the consumer is not willing to pay to recharge his cards... It's a tie, unless somebody want to pay these systems are bound to stay unpopular. I don't mind the 0,2€ they ask for charging the card...when, loading the maximum amount of 50€, it's just 0,375%.
Un produit comme celui décrit est surement Euro-ready au niveau technique... donc coté financier des recharges de 12,78€, 25,56€ ou 51,31€ ne font aucune difference. Probablement il y aura un lien entre le numéro et le volume de la charge: le jour ou l'euro est introduit definitivement on vendra des cartes a 10€,25€ et 50€. C'est simple.
Tout est dans la tête du commain du mortel: il s'habituera a l'euro parce qu'il en sera obligé, pas parce qu'un produit l'utilise. Si un un produit utilise l'euro, il ne l'adoptera tout simplement pas! Donc, pour la seule raison *virtuelle* que l'euro arrivera en 2002 (virtuelle car l'euro est *déja* là), tu dis qu'il devraient attendre 3 mois pour le lancement? Probablement en pleine période de confusion totale... car j'ai un fort doute que la conversion se fera sur des roulettes. (Au niveau mental, pas technique!)
En résumé, bien qu'il n'y a aucune raison technique (ni financiere, ni informatique) pour lancer ce système en Euro, il y a une bonne au niveau pychologique. Je sais bien que le marketing n'est pas bien vu ici sur slashdot, mais parfois ces mecs font leur boulot bien. Dans ce cas ci, ils *ont* pensé!
On the other hand, it is quite impolite to discuss this topic in french on an anglophonic forum. It was quite a wild guess talking french to me, because, I am a Flemish Belgian....this means my mother tongue is dutch and not french :-)
Look, first of all, you got it wrong: technically no Euro currency exists anymore on it's own...Technically seen, by spending my franks (local currency), I *am* spending my Euro's. My existing coins and bills are just placeholders for the Euro's. That is the way I see it, and so do banks: internally there is just a one-to-one mapping, new accounts are exclusively Euro etc...
Secondly, you forget the human part of currency. People are fond of their franks/marks/whatever, and don't want to change. Imagine advertising a new service that *only* uses the yet unknown Euro: that is simply not a good idea, because people won't buy it. My bet is that they just chose a certain amount in DM, and that actually internally the Euro representation will be used.
One of the big disadvantages is that those systems are not compatible from one country to another. This is especially frustrating for people like me (Belgian living in Luxembourg) who don't like to carry around cash. I use my MiniCash just to pay parking place, and that's it.
I don't think either of those two systems support online shopping. (At least it is not advertised) Homogenizing those systems all over Europe could be a solution and a primary step towards using these systems online, but unfortunately I don't know enough of the internals to think of a solution.
Yes, indeed....but Texas could be next, don't you think?
Actually that is a user problem, if one could teach people that RTF works well and they can easily save in that format under office (any version) there is no problem. Besides, I heard "yes but I have Office 2000 and my bussiness partner only Office 95 so he has to upgrade" I just show them the "save as 95 document" (or RTF for the matter) and they look at me in amazement. Okay, I agree, rendering is not always perfectly the same, but to do bussiness it is about content, not about layout! (And embedded excell sheets don't work, but I don't see those very often)
/. has a history in this, just recall "Mir is going up"..and two articles later "Mir is going down". Same for Iridium. I think someone at slashdot likes JoJo's ;-)
I still use Linux for learning, I've got a second machine for toying around, experimenting with different distributions of with *BSD, but for my daily email I use W2K with Eudora. /. crowd who is able to use exclusively Linux: but I'm not (able to) and I prefer to admit that I'm a lame Windows NT4 and W2K user.
I would love to be one of the
Initially the bundled office applications were distinct packages: you could buy Word, and Excel, etc for outrageous prices. I recall my dad buying Excel 4 for big bucks. Oh, well, as I said memories :-)
My guess is a nice little BSOD....but then I do know for sure, because you posted that once in your previous comments ;-)
I know where Lyon is: I'm European myself and have quite some french friends...one of which studied in Lyon. But of course you coudn't know that ;-) Paris is as exciting for a small-town-guy like me than for Americans: you know, the kind that say: "I go to Europe this summer" -- "Oh, great, are you going to visit the Eiffel Tower?" They are quite funny when they do that.
Now, I am one of those spoiled Europeans that can easily get those TDI you are talking about (they nearly give them away as goodies as company cars). I didn't choose one to get one. I drove VW and Audi 1.9TDI and 2.5TDI from friends. Yes, even the 150HP version. :-) ;-)
It is very nice, but on lower RPM's it is *just* a diesel...lack of response, and a truck feeling nevertheless. The acceleration, as soon as you hit the pedal hard and the turbo starts, is quite okay, but nothing I didn't have in a plain Audi 80 1.8 fuel.
If you drive as few kilometers as me (about 15000 per years), diesels are in fact more expensive. Well, that's what I read
Besides, the real kick are the turbo's in classic fuel cars, get a look at those nice 1.8T (the one I have, 225HP...funky) and 2.7T engines Audi makes...of course, you don't have to mind the mileage
When I visiting Paris some weeks ago, one of the points I visited was "La Grande Arche". They had (free) internet kiosks with touchscreens. Now, one thing was clear after using it 5 seconds: it was no Redmond OS. I'm not sure if it was Linux, but they used Mozilla (slighly modified or skinned I'd say). It worked quite well except the touchscreens were actually imprecise but that could be a hardware issue. I'm not sure why, but X restarted about every 10 minutes: might be to force people not to use it too long. Well, I could check my mail for free, so it was usefull ;-)
No clue if they had a disk or not, I guess they were dumb clients mounted on NFS...
Probably with a processor that gets really hot and needs software upgrades!
Bernouilli is old Iomega technology. Very reliable! I didn't find much references on the product on their site, but it is one of their products: look here .
Eh? Now, I own a Jaw 1GB and it must be 5 years old now. All the media I have (about 7 disks) have the same age. I never, ever lost a single byte on those disks, though one of the media was used for a long time as a secondary harddisk (the others as backup media).
I also own a Zip 100 Internal SCSI, which died about two months ago. Up until the drive died, I never lost any data on the zip disks I owned (about 15 pieces). Of course, now I do not know if I lost anything because Iomega doesn't ship internal SCSI drives anymore. (And no, USB or external SCSI doesn't work on that computer, yes it is an older computer)
And now for the nostalgic of us: I also owned a dual Iomega Bernouilli 90 drive. Now those drives rocked in the time harddisk were a mere 100Meg big. Oh, and, no, I never lost a single byte of data on those drives either. .ico folders on your Windows partition...I bet it has an icon called Bernouilli or something similar.
Hey, I should just get them out of the box and try if they still work. Last time I looked, the drivers for Zip/Jaz do support the Bernouilli. Just take a look at the
I guess I can be called an Iomega fan, because for me their hardware just worked fine. (Anybody got a working Internal SCSI Zip drive for sale? Anybody? )
Oh, but I gladly would do that, except that to get one of those you have to shell out big bucks and prove you are actually an organization or a commercial entity. Alas, I am an individual and cannot prove such things. .com, .net and .org I only needed to fill in a form, shell out 12 EUR per domain and that was it. Of course I only have domain names out of vanity, but that doens't matter, does it?
I think www.jawtheshark.lu looks much cooler than the ones I've got. But for my
Yes! You're so right: my multi-partition strategy on my machines has saved my *ss numerous times. (Especially since backing up is not my strongest point). :-) I heared they have mountpoints in 2000 now too, so, perhaps even registry hacking is not needed anymore...
Actually, the people whom you talk about (secretaries, etc...) probably use a certain Remond OS. I can tell you that, when well deployed, it is not confusing for them. Consider this: theý know "My Documents" which should be where they store important data. So alter the registry and make it point to another partition. Done!
Okay, actually it's a tad more difficult with 2000 or NT4, but then, since they prolly are in a network you should use roaming profiles.