Re: Jiri's Widgets Help
Kat wrote:
>> I would love to tell you to hold your horses, completely reworked,
>> friendlier version of the widgets is on its way, but I can't. I had
a
>> stupid, dreadful disaster this morning: half asleep I wanted to
copy
>> my working directory on to the floppy to take it to work (for
safety I
>> usually store every thing important on at least two machines), but
>> instead of typing copy *.* a:\ I typed copy a:\*.*. You guessed it,
I
>> copied an old version from the floppy over the new version. Almost
a
>> week of work up in smoke inside 20 seconds...
> Jiri, i did that once. Now, i backup the files as needed on a 2nd
> and 3rd harddrive (yep, had several hd failures too), and copy the
> files to the 2nd puter with a zip drive from the backup files on hd
> #2, not from the original files, not from the 3rd hd.
But, Kat, I haven't got three harddrives. Just one, and that is
getting pretty full now, after I sacrificed a large chunk of it to
accommodate Peanut Linux (I think it will have to go soon, it's cute,
but I have no time or patience to fiddle with it anyway...). Until
quite recently I used my older machine as a back up, and occasionally
I still do, but it's no longer safe, because I had to surrender it,
partly, to my grandchildren to stop them from trashing my newer
machine.
And do not tell me, please, I should buy an additional drive, I know
that. But outside US, the things are not, generally, that simple. New
Zealand is not a third world country, yet, but on average local
hardware prices are more than double of those you enjoy, and our
salaries are less than half of yours. Compute.
While I am on this topic, I must admit, I quite understand what Aku
meant when he equated the price of registered Euphoria with 80 days
food bill. In this light it is truly ridiculous, if not cruel, to
compare the software piracy, a crime construed and prosecuted almost
exclusively for the protection of interests of Bill Gate$ and his ilk,
with rape and murder of innocent children. On the contrary, the
software piracy laws and closely related patent and trademark laws can
be viewed as tools of oppression, devices of the rich to keep the
masses in their right place, in the dark.
> Computers have made me paranoid as heck about data and their
> programs.
I know what you mean, I lost several hard drives in my time, and
funnily enough, the back up services almost invariably tend to fail at
the same time.
> Why not email the files to yourself at work, Jiri?
Good question. I suppose it is quicker to dump them onto a floppy? :)
jiri
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