[huskerlug] Re: Backups

I wouldn't talk Microsoft here, except that it is a
fact of life that everyone we advocate Open Source to,
including College Boards (who tax all of us, with a
Microsoft tax!) thinks that it is the only OS that
exists!  

As advocates of Open Source, we cannot afford to be
incorrect, and want to advocate GNU/Linux choices
foremost.  But, there are some areas, some
applications, not yet fully fulfilled by any GNU/Linux
application.  Happily, this is being rectified at the
rate of over several dozen new applications each day
at http://sourceforge.net.

I cite my hardware on MS OSes
unreliability/destruction vs. Open Source
stability/reliability, as one of the major problems
that is seldom addressed in any literature, and I seek
some credible statistics of hardware reliability to
back up my own experiences.

I predict that the TOC (Total Ownership Cost) debate,
that was warped by MS into some kind of double-speak
for their marketing effort, will be replaced by a
genuine and unshakable dissertation on the unreliable
aspects their OSes introduce in the most stable
hardware platforms/processors/storage devices.

This argument is a very on-topic one, concerning where
the world spends it's money on the IT infrastucture!

 --- Gary Kearney <gkearney@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I seem to have had much better luck with ME than
> most people. Perhaps it's =
> because I try not to trust the OS as much as
> possible. I don't use "FindFas=
> t" and disable the "extras" and "helpful" parts of
> all the MS products that=
>  I can find. I have had one hard drive failure in
> the four years that I've =
> owned the computer

OK, so Microsoft OS comes with certain 'defaults' in
place, that destroy equipment within 3-4 months!

The installer/user must track down, at great expense
in time/resources, all the default problems and repair
them!?

 
> I'm using Word 2000 as part of the Works program
> that came with the compute=
> r. I plan to uninstall it and use Open Office as
> soon as I finish a book pr=
> oject. I used to like the old MS Works 4 program
> before it had been complet=
> ely Micro$ofted. I still use an old copy of
> Publisher 97 for the same reaso=
> n. M$ adds all the "Helpful" crap like "Clippie" and
> tons of other junk and=
>  hides all the settings and other things you can use
> to create a useful env=
> ironment from the junk they set you up with.

Who 'owns' your data?  If you have to convert, then
you are serving a master who cares nothing about your
work!

The thrashing of my drives, when using any of the
stolen code that MS has re-mal-formed to be their
non-standards compliant word processor(s), is not
something I will tolerate, nor, will my clients.


> 
> I hate all the bloat, and that seems to have become
> the pardigm for the who=
> le Window$ world. I just had another program that I
> used to like, update it=
> self almost to the point of unusability.
> Unfortunately I converted my data =
> before I found out about the problems. Live and
> learn.

If a 'standard' is complied with, in any application,
then no data should ever have to be converted! 

> I have a number of graphics programs that work only
> under Windows or I'd be=
>  using Linux right now. Gimp does a lot of what I
> need, but not everything,=
>  so I'm stuck with M$ for a few more months while I
> investigate alternative=
> s.

Try http://sourceforge.net and click on the 'software
map' header to open up all the catagories of
applications and programs available.
 
Who uses GNU/Linux?  You can now add the 'Gnomes of
Munich'  
http://linux.bryanconsulting.com/stories/storyReader$45

 
> > All machinery breaks eventually.  I have over 25
> > systems here. Two run winME.  Guess which ones
> break
> > most often?  I mean that the hard drives crash,
> loose
> > sectors, start to constantly seek, with that
> clacking
> > sound, etc.  Only the Microsoft ones!  Even on the
> > dual boot machines, with identical models of
> drives in
> > hdc: (Open Source) and C: (MS)!


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Patrick
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