Quote from the parent comment: "This robot is exactly the wrong approach to be taking in a counterinsurgency."
For President and General Dwight Eisenhower was right. The Military-Industrial Complex has a life of its own that ignores the well-being of the people. The U.S. government spends any amount of money for killing, and very little money on making relationships. It was reported that, of the more than 1,000 Americans in diplomatic service in Iraq, exactly 6 speak Arabic.
Here's my summary of Bush administration corruption: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy. I hope other people will write their own and send them to their government leaders.
Quick tip from the summary: One of the main purposes of invading Iraq was to reduce the supply of oil and make the price go up. Before the invasion, Iraq was selling 3.5 million barrels a day. Now the country sells 2 million. The Bush family and Cheney have investments in oil and weapons, and they act to make the value of their investments increase.
This is one of numerous "investment opportunities" carried by Slashdot recently. Be very careful. Several of these seem like they are only ways of collecting investor money, and will never make a profit. I didn't investigate this one.
In any case, Slashdot has become a venue for Israeli companies wanting investments.
Quote from the parent post: "But here are the Democrats assaulting our freedoms again..."
Quote from the article: "That amendment was introduced by Senator David Vitter (R-LA)." The person who introduced the bill is a Republican.
I notice that those who call themselves Republican are often dishonest and more interested in expressing their own anger than in managing government. See my summary of Republican corruption. I encourage you to write your own summary and send it to members of Congress.
In my grandparent comment, I was only discussing this issue: The title of the article and the quotes from those who do the research do not match.
Again, here is the quote: "Our study found that speaking two languages throughout one's life appears to be associated with [my emphasis] a delay in the onset of symptoms of dementia by four years compared to those who speak one language,"...
No studies of which I am aware show a "protective effect", as you mentioned. All show association only.
But the bigger issue is that the work, while it has some value, is "junk science". Real scientists try to make theories and test the theories. All the studies of brain function in older people are apparently by people who have no interest in theories. "Junk science" is so commonplace it makes it difficult to find and understand the real scientists.
Title of the article: "Bilingualism Has Protective Effect In Delaying Onset Of Dementia By Four Years, Canadian Study Shows"
That's either stupid, ignorant, or deliberate deception. The study did not prove causality. It showed that two phenomena seemed to be related.
Here's a quote that says what was actually shown: "Our study found that speaking two languages throughout one's life appears to be associated with [my emphasis] a delay in the onset of symptoms of dementia by four years compared to those who speak one language,"...
It's common that editors try to get attention by claiming that scientific investigation is important than it really is. I don't know what happened in this instance, but it's difficult for me to believe that the editors of a medical journal would be so ignorant about science that they would not know they were mis-reporting it.
The prices at Thomas Distributing are VERY high, in my opinion. The charger recommended is $70. The batteries are more than twice what they cost during a sale at Fry's.
Iraq Body Count says about 55,000 people have died because of DIRECT violence caused by the U.S. government. However, that does not count the people who died because of indirect causes. Iraq Body Count is defending itself against criticism that it is undercounting the deaths due to U.S. government violence; you can read the discussions on the site.
An estimated 150,000 Iraqis died because of the first U.S. government-Iraq war. So, the Bush family has killed about 205,000 Iraqis, even using estimates that are low because they count only direct violence.
The total number of people killed in the 24 countries that the U.S. government has invaded since the 2nd world war is, sensibly, I think, estimated at 11,000,000. This counts the number of people who died because of the violence that violence causes.
The U.S. government has started a civil war in Iraq, as well as starting its own war. The people who die in the civil war must be considered to have died because of Cheney - Rumsfeld - G.W. Bush violence. The U.S. government violence did not create a peaceful democracy. It created an even more unstable country; that's exactly to be expected; violence breeds violence.
Quote from the parent comment: "Name the last time Fundamentalist Christians flew planes into building killing innocents, or used truck bombs to blow up apartment buildings or office buildings or naval ships."
Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, and Bush, enthusiastically supported by those who call themselves "evangelical Christians", have killed more people than Saddam Hussein. If Saddam was convicted because he killed Iraqis, should Bush administration officials and "Christians" be convicted too?
Saddam killed to maintain political control. Bush administration officials killed for money: oil and weapons and spy hardware profits.
"You shall not kill." Except when you really, really want to?
Quote from the parent comment: "My recommendation? Mine the Earth and the rest of the Solar System for their resources and then move on like the aliens in Independence Day. Alpha Centari is looking good this part of the millennium."
Wow, an Anonymous Coward who has begun believing that fantasy is reality. The lesson: Don't play video games when you need to educate yourself about the real world.
Many people believe they are being religious when they are only deluding
themselves. Many people in the U.S. feel a lot of stress, and they fantasize
about the "end time", and hope that it will come soon, since they don't know
how to deal with the conflicts in their lives. Most of those people are "one
issue" voters, who don't pay much attention to managerial ability when they
vote. Most of them voted for George W. Bush; they believe that George W. Bush
is Christian and they believe he cares about them.
A Bush administration
insider, David Kuo, wrote a book titled Tempting Faith in which he tells of the dishonesty of the
Bush Administration. Crazily, he says he still believes that George W. Bush is a
Christian, even though people at the top of the Bush administration, he says,
call people like him &%^#$ evangelicals.
Karl Rove wrote scripts for George W. Bush to read that would manipulate evangelicals to think that G.W.B. is a Christian. If that deception had not worked, the average person in the U.S. would have a lot more money, the U.S. would be a more peaceful place, the U.S. would still be respected by other countries, we wouldn't have to watch so many stories about violence every day on the news, and we wouldn't have to watch comedians joke that the President of the United States is an idiot.
If you don't educate yourself about this, you are part of the problem rather than part of the solution. Here's my effort to do something more than just vote: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy. Here's another Slashdot reader's effort: Letter to Congress regarding Iraq. What is yours?
Reading the comments posted above is chilling. Generally, people don't even begin to understand the issues.
Weapons and spy contracts can be mostly secret. In practice, that means there will be less supervision and much more opportunity to make and sell junk at very high profit. It is very common that an entire project is so poorly designed that it is useless; however, the politics is such that the failures are kept secret. The U.S. government has been corrupted by secrecy and dishonesty.
Here is my summary of U.S. government corruption: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy. I hope you will write your own summary and send it to friends and government leaders.
The last time Microsoft tested CRM software, some Microsoft contractor called and thought our company was in New Jersey; that was in error by thousands of miles. Apparently Microsoft has a strict rule: Never release a first version that actually works well.
Jotok, in my opinion there is a big mistake here. The story is not about global warming. It is about manipulation of the media. See this comment: Not just oil companies: Bush administration, too.
I'm certainly not lying! I heard that the original creators of Fastback left
the company. The events, which are all that matter here in a discussion about
backup software, certainly support that conclusion.
Very soon, maybe at the next version, a version was released that was
so buggy Fastback lost its popularity. By the time Symantec bought it, it was
unpopular junk, and Symantec killed the product. It is a fact that Fastback
rapidly went from the best-selling backup product to junk.
The name Barry Bellue rings a bell. I think Bellue bought Fastback for
his company, as he did with many other products. Bellue thought he knew about technology, but apparently just happened to be in
the right place at the right time. His next effort seems to have ended in a lawsuit.
After Bellue fired his California marketing staff, he put his daughter
in charge of writing ads. The next ad for Fastback was shockingly poor. That's
what I was told; it is a fact that the ads were terrible.
The same thing happened with PC Tools. After a junk version was
released by a new CEO, PC Tools was sold to Symantec, who killed it.
I never understood why Symantec would pay so much for products that
were already dead when they were bought. Apparently all Symantec got was
customer lists.
The underlying issue is that backup software has possibly been the
category of software with the worst history.
"... they feel they have the right to take any action they desire..."
Thank you for saying that, Jeremy, and for your entire comment. (I don't want to address you by your Slashdot user name.)
I get scared when I look at the discussions on Slashdot and Digg.com about politics. I see that VERY FEW people understand the seriousness of the corruption in the U.S. government now. I wanted to do something more than just vote, so I made a summary of the corruption: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy.
Disk Image backups are required to back up the operating system
drive. Disk Image backups are sector-by-sector backups. Some people call
that operating system cloning or disk cloning.
There is a free Linux/Unix utility called DD. DD has a
Windows version,
too. My understanding is that DD has no compression, so that the backups are
much larger than with commercial software that compresses the images.
Microsoft has made Windows XP difficult to back up. It is necessary to
have 3rd party software that can back up the operating system and also files
that are in use. Windows XP will not allow copy, xcopy, or robocopy backups of
the system registry for, example. For that you must have drive imaging
software like Acronis TrueImage or another.
If a user forgets to close all programs, some important files may
still be loaded at night and in use when backups are scheduled. That's why it
is necessary to be able to back up files that are in use. Microsoft provides
the API to do that, but very limited backup software called NTBackup.
Tip: Encryption is necessary. Backups that are not encrypted
are somewhat useless, since it is too risky to take them off site. Remember
that password protection is not encryption.
Be careful about backup software that a big company bought from some
other company. When that happens, usually the technical people are fired and
the company that buys the rights is not prepared technically to respect what
the fired people have done. Microsoft bought rights to NTBackup from Veritas.
My understanding is that Veritas bought it from Conner and Conner bought it
from Arcada.
Recently Symantec bought
Veritas. My experience with Symantec is that their software often has huge
bugs, and their telephone support is possibly close to the worst.
For the last 15 years, before Windows 95 even, backup software has been some
of the worst, most unreliable software commonly used. As far as I know, there
are no good solutions.
Tips based on our experience:
Symantec seems scary, due to the number of very serious failures that
have been reported over the years, and due to the character of the company:
Symantec Ghost is not the same software Ghost was previously.
Symantec bought PowerQuest's DeployCenter and relabeled it Ghost, without
making that clear in ads. That showed zero respect for their original Ghost
product; in my experience the disrespect was deserved.
There seems to be a
social breakdown at Symantec. The company seems to have far too few people
with technical knowledge.
My experience is that Symantec technical support is
abusive; abusiveness seems to be a major managerial method there. It is
difficult to defend against many small abuses, as both Microsoft and Karl Rove
(Bush's brain) know very well. (Abusers tend to learn by watching each other,
even though they may not know each other.)
Acronis TrueImage is generally accepted as the best backup software
for small businesses now. However:
The TrueImage software is not able to make encrypted backups; it can only
password protect, a protection that is easily broken. So, don't allow anyone
to take backup media off site. Store backups in a secure vault on site.
We have had many, many problems with unreliability of Acronis
software. A scheduled backup may not actually run, for example. Recent
versions have been more reliable.
The command line interface of TrueImage WorkStation seemed full of bugs
when it was first released. Apparently the release was far too soon.
Acronis technical support amazes even me. I sent a notice of a failure in
a new version. About 3 months later, I got a nonsense reply from someone who
sounded like she was about 21 years old and only working for Acronis so that
she could find a man, get pregnant, and stay home.
Acronis sales people seem to believe that anyone with technical knowledge
is socially inferior. My experience is that they seem to think that dirtying
their little brains with technical details is beneath their exalted place in
society. When you ask for help, you may get some action that seems to be part
of internal political maneuvering.
Acronis recently released an "update" that changed TrueImage installations
to a new product name called TrueImage Home. Apparently this is an attempt to
intimidate customers to pay for the Workstation version which is far more
expensive.
Some ugly history of backup software: Hewlett-Packard's tape backup
software would, during restore, make hundreds of zero-length files in random
places. The names of the files would be taken from the names of legitimate
files on the tape. HP technical support thought that was not a particularly
bad problem.
In the DOS days, a company called Fifth Generation Systems sold a
product called Fastback. The product was excellent until it was sold to a
former banker who put his daughter in charge of marketing. (I talked to him
for about 45 minutes on the telephone one day.) Since the banker didn't have any technical knowledge, and didn't believe that was important,
and since the technical people left when the banker bought the company, the
product quickly fell behind, became useless, and disappeared from the marketplace.
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Quote from the parent comment: "This robot is exactly the wrong approach to be taking in a counterinsurgency."
For President and General Dwight Eisenhower was right. The Military-Industrial Complex has a life of its own that ignores the well-being of the people. The U.S. government spends any amount of money for killing, and very little money on making relationships. It was reported that, of the more than 1,000 Americans in diplomatic service in Iraq, exactly 6 speak Arabic.
Here's my summary of Bush administration corruption: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy. I hope other people will write their own and send them to their government leaders.
Quick tip from the summary: One of the main purposes of invading Iraq was to reduce the supply of oil and make the price go up. Before the invasion, Iraq was selling 3.5 million barrels a day. Now the country sells 2 million. The Bush family and Cheney have investments in oil and weapons, and they act to make the value of their investments increase.
Yes, it gave the linked error message when I ran the program.
Certainly it means that the program cannot be trusted. Note that there is a new version since yesterday evening.
When I ran Rootkit Unhooker, downloaded 01/17/2007, 11:46 PM, it said it is itself infected: Rootkit Unhooker has detected parasite inside itself. "It is recommended to remove parasite, okay?"
This is one of numerous "investment opportunities" carried by Slashdot recently. Be very careful. Several of these seem like they are only ways of collecting investor money, and will never make a profit. I didn't investigate this one.
In any case, Slashdot has become a venue for Israeli companies wanting investments.
Quote from the parent post: "But here are the Democrats assaulting our freedoms again..."
Quote from the article: "That amendment was introduced by Senator David Vitter (R-LA)." The person who introduced the bill is a Republican.
I notice that those who call themselves Republican are often dishonest and more interested in expressing their own anger than in managing government. See my summary of Republican corruption. I encourage you to write your own summary and send it to members of Congress.
In my grandparent comment, I was only discussing this issue: The title of the article and the quotes from those who do the research do not match.
Again, here is the quote: "Our study found that speaking two languages throughout one's life appears to be associated with [my emphasis] a delay in the onset of symptoms of dementia by four years compared to those who speak one language,"...
No studies of which I am aware show a "protective effect", as you mentioned. All show association only.
But the bigger issue is that the work, while it has some value, is "junk science". Real scientists try to make theories and test the theories. All the studies of brain function in older people are apparently by people who have no interest in theories. "Junk science" is so commonplace it makes it difficult to find and understand the real scientists.
Title of the article: "Bilingualism Has Protective Effect In Delaying Onset Of Dementia By Four Years, Canadian Study Shows"
That's either stupid, ignorant, or deliberate deception. The study did not prove causality. It showed that two phenomena seemed to be related.
Here's a quote that says what was actually shown: "Our study found that speaking two languages throughout one's life appears to be associated with [my emphasis] a delay in the onset of symptoms of dementia by four years compared to those who speak one language,"...
It's common that editors try to get attention by claiming that scientific investigation is important than it really is. I don't know what happened in this instance, but it's difficult for me to believe that the editors of a medical journal would be so ignorant about science that they would not know they were mis-reporting it.
The prices at Thomas Distributing are VERY high, in my opinion. The charger recommended is $70. The batteries are more than twice what they cost during a sale at Fry's.
Overnight Battery Charger With 4 AA Ni-MH Batteries, $11.99, regular price.
Iraq Body Count says about 55,000 people have died because of DIRECT violence caused by the U.S. government. However, that does not count the people who died because of indirect causes. Iraq Body Count is defending itself against criticism that it is undercounting the deaths due to U.S. government violence; you can read the discussions on the site.
An estimated 150,000 Iraqis died because of the first U.S. government-Iraq war. So, the Bush family has killed about 205,000 Iraqis, even using estimates that are low because they count only direct violence.
The total number of people killed in the 24 countries that the U.S. government has invaded since the 2nd world war is, sensibly, I think, estimated at 11,000,000. This counts the number of people who died because of the violence that violence causes.
The U.S. government has started a civil war in Iraq, as well as starting its own war. The people who die in the civil war must be considered to have died because of Cheney - Rumsfeld - G.W. Bush violence. The U.S. government violence did not create a peaceful democracy. It created an even more unstable country; that's exactly to be expected; violence breeds violence.
Reference: Bush has killed more people than Saddam Hussein: 654,965 people.
Quote from the parent comment: "Name the last time Fundamentalist Christians flew planes into building killing innocents, or used truck bombs to blow up apartment buildings or office buildings or naval ships."
Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, and Bush, enthusiastically supported by those who call themselves "evangelical Christians", have killed more people than Saddam Hussein. If Saddam was convicted because he killed Iraqis, should Bush administration officials and "Christians" be convicted too?
Saddam killed to maintain political control. Bush administration officials killed for money: oil and weapons and spy hardware profits.
"You shall not kill." Except when you really, really want to?
Quote from the parent comment: "My recommendation? Mine the Earth and the rest of the Solar System for their resources and then move on like the aliens in Independence Day. Alpha Centari is looking good this part of the millennium."
Wow, an Anonymous Coward who has begun believing that fantasy is reality. The lesson: Don't play video games when you need to educate yourself about the real world.
Here's what I have learned after efforts to educate myself: Not religion, delusion. Read David Kuo's book.
Many people believe they are being religious when they are only deluding themselves. Many people in the U.S. feel a lot of stress, and they fantasize about the "end time", and hope that it will come soon, since they don't know how to deal with the conflicts in their lives. Most of those people are "one issue" voters, who don't pay much attention to managerial ability when they vote. Most of them voted for George W. Bush; they believe that George W. Bush is Christian and they believe he cares about them.
A Bush administration insider, David Kuo, wrote a book titled Tempting Faith in which he tells of the dishonesty of the Bush Administration. Crazily, he says he still believes that George W. Bush is a Christian, even though people at the top of the Bush administration, he says, call people like him &%^#$ evangelicals.
Karl Rove wrote scripts for George W. Bush to read that would manipulate evangelicals to think that G.W.B. is a Christian. If that deception had not worked, the average person in the U.S. would have a lot more money, the U.S. would be a more peaceful place, the U.S. would still be respected by other countries, we wouldn't have to watch so many stories about violence every day on the news, and we wouldn't have to watch comedians joke that the President of the United States is an idiot.
If you don't educate yourself about this, you are part of the problem rather than part of the solution. Here's my effort to do something more than just vote: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy. Here's another Slashdot reader's effort: Letter to Congress regarding Iraq. What is yours?
Reading the comments posted above is chilling. Generally, people don't even begin to understand the issues.
Weapons and spy contracts can be mostly secret. In practice, that means there will be less supervision and much more opportunity to make and sell junk at very high profit. It is very common that an entire project is so poorly designed that it is useless; however, the politics is such that the failures are kept secret. The U.S. government has been corrupted by secrecy and dishonesty.
Here is my summary of U.S. government corruption: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy. I hope you will write your own summary and send it to friends and government leaders.
The last time Microsoft tested CRM software, some Microsoft contractor called and thought our company was in New Jersey; that was in error by thousands of miles. Apparently Microsoft has a strict rule: Never release a first version that actually works well.
Agreed, corporations would be foolish to install Vista in 2007. Windows XP was not heartache-free until SP2 had been released.
LOL. Another way of describing Vista besides "the Zune of operating systems": "dog's breakfast".
Will Vista be the Zune of operating systems?
Jotok, in my opinion there is a big mistake here. The story is not about global warming. It is about manipulation of the media. See this comment: Not just oil companies: Bush administration, too.
The Bush administration is also manipulating the media: Bush Spent $1.6 Bil. on 'Spin'. The practice is illegal: Buying of News by Bush's Aides Is Ruled Illegal. The Bush administration believes that it can break laws: Bush challenges hundreds of laws. "Spinning" is an overly gentle word for lying. An October 24, 2006 Washington Post story, Spinning the Course explores a few of the lies which attempt to corrupt what the voters learn about their government.
That paragraph is from a summary of Bush administration corruption I wrote because I wanted to do more than just vote: The Bush administration found support for war through manipulation. I hope other people will write their own summaries.
"Basically, this and every other piece of Symantec software I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with is the worst piece of trash I've ever seen."
LOL. Excessive praise for Symantec, I see.
Here's a question. Why does Symantec buy software that has reached the end of its life? See my comments: Most unreliable software category: Backup software
Barry Bellue: ... nearly twelve years in financial services, banking and public accounting...
"Mr. Bellue holds a Bachelor of Science in Business and Accounting and a Master of Divinity from Southern Seminary."
I'm certainly not lying! I heard that the original creators of Fastback left the company. The events, which are all that matter here in a discussion about backup software, certainly support that conclusion.
Very soon, maybe at the next version, a version was released that was so buggy Fastback lost its popularity. By the time Symantec bought it, it was unpopular junk, and Symantec killed the product. It is a fact that Fastback rapidly went from the best-selling backup product to junk.
The name Barry Bellue rings a bell. I think Bellue bought Fastback for his company, as he did with many other products. Bellue thought he knew about technology, but apparently just happened to be in the right place at the right time. His next effort seems to have ended in a lawsuit.
After Bellue fired his California marketing staff, he put his daughter in charge of writing ads. The next ad for Fastback was shockingly poor. That's what I was told; it is a fact that the ads were terrible.
The same thing happened with PC Tools. After a junk version was released by a new CEO, PC Tools was sold to Symantec, who killed it.
I never understood why Symantec would pay so much for products that were already dead when they were bought. Apparently all Symantec got was customer lists.
The underlying issue is that backup software has possibly been the category of software with the worst history.
"... they feel they have the right to take any action they desire..."
Thank you for saying that, Jeremy, and for your entire comment. (I don't want to address you by your Slashdot user name.)
I get scared when I look at the discussions on Slashdot and Digg.com about politics. I see that VERY FEW people understand the seriousness of the corruption in the U.S. government now. I wanted to do something more than just vote, so I made a summary of the corruption: George W. Bush comedy and tragedy.
Here are more notes to go with my parent comment:
Disk Image backups are required to back up the operating system drive. Disk Image backups are sector-by-sector backups. Some people call that operating system cloning or disk cloning. There is a free Linux/Unix utility called DD. DD has a Windows version, too. My understanding is that DD has no compression, so that the backups are much larger than with commercial software that compresses the images.
Microsoft has made Windows XP difficult to back up. It is necessary to have 3rd party software that can back up the operating system and also files that are in use. Windows XP will not allow copy, xcopy, or robocopy backups of the system registry for, example. For that you must have drive imaging software like Acronis TrueImage or another.
If a user forgets to close all programs, some important files may still be loaded at night and in use when backups are scheduled. That's why it is necessary to be able to back up files that are in use. Microsoft provides the API to do that, but very limited backup software called NTBackup.
Tip: Encryption is necessary. Backups that are not encrypted are somewhat useless, since it is too risky to take them off site. Remember that password protection is not encryption.
Be careful about backup software that a big company bought from some other company. When that happens, usually the technical people are fired and the company that buys the rights is not prepared technically to respect what the fired people have done. Microsoft bought rights to NTBackup from Veritas. My understanding is that Veritas bought it from Conner and Conner bought it from Arcada.
Recently Symantec bought Veritas. My experience with Symantec is that their software often has huge bugs, and their telephone support is possibly close to the worst.
I found this confused-looking but extensive list of Windows backup software: Backup Software For Windows 2000
Tips based on our experience:
Symantec seems scary, due to the number of very serious failures that have been reported over the years, and due to the character of the company:
- Symantec Ghost is not the same software Ghost was previously.
Symantec bought PowerQuest's DeployCenter and relabeled it Ghost, without
making that clear in ads. That showed zero respect for their original Ghost
product; in my experience the disrespect was deserved.
- There seems to be a
social breakdown at Symantec. The company seems to have far too few people
with technical knowledge.
- My experience is that Symantec technical support is
abusive; abusiveness seems to be a major managerial method there. It is
difficult to defend against many small abuses, as both Microsoft and Karl Rove
(Bush's brain) know very well. (Abusers tend to learn by watching each other,
even though they may not know each other.)
Acronis TrueImage is generally accepted as the best backup software for small businesses now. However:- The TrueImage software is not able to make encrypted backups; it can only
password protect, a protection that is easily broken. So, don't allow anyone
to take backup media off site. Store backups in a secure vault on site.
- We have had many, many problems with unreliability of Acronis
software. A scheduled backup may not actually run, for example. Recent
versions have been more reliable.
- The command line interface of TrueImage WorkStation seemed full of bugs
when it was first released. Apparently the release was far too soon.
- Acronis technical support amazes even me. I sent a notice of a failure in
a new version. About 3 months later, I got a nonsense reply from someone who
sounded like she was about 21 years old and only working for Acronis so that
she could find a man, get pregnant, and stay home.
- Acronis sales people seem to believe that anyone with technical knowledge
is socially inferior. My experience is that they seem to think that dirtying
their little brains with technical details is beneath their exalted place in
society. When you ask for help, you may get some action that seems to be part
of internal political maneuvering.
- Acronis recently released an "update" that changed TrueImage installations
to a new product name called TrueImage Home. Apparently this is an attempt to
intimidate customers to pay for the Workstation version which is far more
expensive.
Some ugly history of backup software: Hewlett-Packard's tape backup software would, during restore, make hundreds of zero-length files in random places. The names of the files would be taken from the names of legitimate files on the tape. HP technical support thought that was not a particularly bad problem.In the DOS days, a company called Fifth Generation Systems sold a product called Fastback. The product was excellent until it was sold to a former banker who put his daughter in charge of marketing. (I talked to him for about 45 minutes on the telephone one day.) Since the banker didn't have any technical knowledge, and didn't believe that was important, and since the technical people left when the banker bought the company, the product quickly fell behind, became useless, and disappeared from the marketplace.