Even if switching platforms is a viable solution (which, for most users, it isn't, due to application compatiblity, enviroment, and a host of other situations), your answer doesn't meet one of the articles main requirements;
I want the files on the disc readable from any system, so no proprietary backup wrapper or DAT files, please.
Restorable images are not the basic files readable on any system.
On topic, I find that a simple external hard drive and Rapid Backup (under Other Software -> Retired) works perfectly fine for myself and quite a few other people that I've set it up for. Yes, as it states on the page it is technically unfinished software, and you do need to apply a patch that the author has provided, but the software does work quite well and includes a scheduler.
There has been talk in the past of Microsoft releasing a command-line version of Windows Server (i.e. the GUI is optional), but AFAIK, that's just been talk with no real action.
Actually, there is a.iso on Microsoft Connect (the new Beta site for MS) for Vista participants called "Longhorn Server Core", which is a naked versions of the server (no GUI, no add ins, no apps, etc...). I don't know if they're actually going to release it when everything goes RTM, though.
How many Slashdotters does it take to point out a dupe? Look above!
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Did I mention anything about configuration? If I find something interesting, I'll take the time to poke around with it and learn it, but I need to know what the hell it is, first! After all, there's nothing like spouting off abbrivations fifty times without knowing what they stand for....
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Thank you! It gets rather aggravating when the poster/article writer assume that everyone knows what the abbreviation they use over and over again without explaining means.
And for those who are about to jump and say "if you don't know it, Google it!", I say "why?". If it's important enough to make an article about, could you please make sure everyone knows what exactly it is you're talking about? Please?
The last time I crossed into Washington state from Vancouver, BC, it was American boarder guards I had to deal with, not Canadians. If you're all so god-damn worried about terrorists coming from here, maybe you should start looking at your own customs policies and boarders, not ours.
Allows you to change the product name in various parts of the browser. Random name generation ensures perpetual humour and possible end-user confusion.
Not everyone is an idiot when it comes to Windows, jackass. I haven't had a virus since the days of Windows 3.1, and spyware? The last time I had that on any of my systems was...hmm...never!
Running decent antivirus software, plus regular Ad-aware scans, combined with a little intelligence when surfing tend to keep Windows fairly clean.
By the way, I love how hostile everyone gets here when someone isn't bashing Microsoft.
I wasn't arguing that SP2 wasn't bloatish - I was stating that after a clean install on my laptop, it ran faster. What I should have added (hind-sight being 20/20, after all) is that, for this laptop, it also runs faster with a clean install of SP2 than with a clean install of SP1. I did read the article, as you seem to think otherwise, and I was merely replying to the parent.
While it does include the lastest Logo'ed driver for my card, I was running that driver on SP1. There's definately something changed that's helping the system's preformance.
I'm currently running on a Toshiba Tecra 8100 (500Mhz, 192MB RAM), and after slipstreaming SP2 on to my Windows CD and doing a clean install it's running faster than ever. On SP1 I had to turn off all of the visual options (drop shadows, ClearType, Themes, etc...) or the thing would run at a crawl. Now I can have everything on and use custom themes without any slowdown.
Within a couple of minutes of someone viewing a URL that was private and only meant for them with a browser with the google toolbar installed the googlebot will come along to the site and grab the file for indexing. Nasty if you're not expecting it.
But if you read everything like you're supposed to when installing something, you won't need to be surprised by it.
Yes, Google is blocking Third Party Checkers. So that must be why when I open up Firefox, GMail Notifier alerts me that I have seven messages waiting for me. If you would, take a look at their changelog:
Current version: 0.3.3
* Gmail changed, which broke notifiers, updated login code to the new system.
So yes, Google changed the login system, and the software was updated to work with it. Does this seem like an attempt to block other clients from checking GMail? Not really. It looks more like they updated their software, and it had a side effect which was apparently fairly easily correctable.
It looks to me as if a few people here decided to take the Third Part Checker article to be the absolute, unbending truth, and didn't bother to check around to make sure it was.
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Someone mod parent up for the truthfulness of his statement.
*Claps*
Restorable images are not the basic files readable on any system.
On topic, I find that a simple external hard drive and Rapid Backup (under Other Software -> Retired) works perfectly fine for myself and quite a few other people that I've set it up for. Yes, as it states on the page it is technically unfinished software, and you do need to apply a patch that the author has provided, but the software does work quite well and includes a scheduler.
There has been talk in the past of Microsoft releasing a command-line version of Windows Server (i.e. the GUI is optional), but AFAIK, that's just been talk with no real action.
.iso on Microsoft Connect (the new Beta site for MS) for Vista participants called "Longhorn Server Core", which is a naked versions of the server (no GUI, no add ins, no apps, etc...). I don't know if they're actually going to release it when everything goes RTM, though.
Actually, there is a
And there we catch the irony!
How many Slashdotters does it take to point out a dupe? Look above!
Did I mention anything about configuration? If I find something interesting, I'll take the time to poke around with it and learn it, but I need to know what the hell it is, first! After all, there's nothing like spouting off abbrivations fifty times without knowing what they stand for....
Thank you! It gets rather aggravating when the poster/article writer assume that everyone knows what the abbreviation they use over and over again without explaining means.
And for those who are about to jump and say "if you don't know it, Google it!", I say "why?". If it's important enough to make an article about, could you please make sure everyone knows what exactly it is you're talking about? Please?
Hey, take a look here, please: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=138168&cid =11569342
The last time I crossed into Washington state from Vancouver, BC, it was American boarder guards I had to deal with, not Canadians. If you're all so god-damn worried about terrorists coming from here, maybe you should start looking at your own customs policies and boarders, not ours.
Not everyone is an idiot when it comes to Windows, jackass. I haven't had a virus since the days of Windows 3.1, and spyware? The last time I had that on any of my systems was...hmm...never! Running decent antivirus software, plus regular Ad-aware scans, combined with a little intelligence when surfing tend to keep Windows fairly clean. By the way, I love how hostile everyone gets here when someone isn't bashing Microsoft.
I wasn't arguing that SP2 wasn't bloatish - I was stating that after a clean install on my laptop, it ran faster. What I should have added (hind-sight being 20/20, after all) is that, for this laptop, it also runs faster with a clean install of SP2 than with a clean install of SP1. I did read the article, as you seem to think otherwise, and I was merely replying to the parent.
While it does include the lastest Logo'ed driver for my card, I was running that driver on SP1. There's definately something changed that's helping the system's preformance.
I'm currently running on a Toshiba Tecra 8100 (500Mhz, 192MB RAM), and after slipstreaming SP2 on to my Windows CD and doing a clean install it's running faster than ever. On SP1 I had to turn off all of the visual options (drop shadows, ClearType, Themes, etc...) or the thing would run at a crawl. Now I can have everything on and use custom themes without any slowdown.
But if you read everything like you're supposed to when installing something, you won't need to be surprised by it.
It looks to me as if a few people here decided to take the Third Part Checker article to be the absolute, unbending truth, and didn't bother to check around to make sure it was.