OpenEuphoria

Re: Backups

• Posted by euman at bellsouth.net Mar 25, 2002
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <kbochert at ix.netcom.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>

>Backups are for wimps! 

>I thought it might amuse you folks to hear that I am a
>long-term programmer who does not use backups.
>I don't use an autosaving editor or a UPS. The rare backups
>that I have made have never been used.

>I do save my edit files frequently, and on the rare times
>that Windows crashes,

I have to say that recently when I updated my Win98 box to IE6
I havent seen a crash in several months.

LINUX RANT:

I can tell you that anyone who thinks Linux is faster and safer than 
Windows has been brain washed by someone.

Try running Linux on a i486 processor.
    * SLOW, SLOW and way SLOW *

Not to mention you have to keep recompiling the kernel 
for everychange you make to your system.

Some people say that Linux is more stable and hardly crashes and I 
say that when it does make a mistake it doesnt let you know until you
cant boot the O/S anymore.

Linux Black-Hats chew on those words.

> I might lose as much as 20 minutes
>of edits, but I find they are so fresh in my mind that I can
>recreate them in 5 minutes (and do them more cleanly besides).

>I also use Qwin to create an audit trail of software versions
>and this has enabled me to back out of an ill-advised change,
>but has never been used to recover from a system failure.

>I guess it helps to be on friendly terms with the hardware 

>Karl Bochert