More goddam computer problems

[Shawn]

Well, I help people with Mac problems 5 days a week. I used to support Windows. My job is MUCH EASIER NOW!

The difference between reloading and configuring the Windows operating system and the Mac OS is about 3 hours.

[.:.impossible]

Apple does not make hard drives. Their products usually use Hitachi. Apple has an external hard drive on the market called Time Capsule. It encases a Hitachi 1TB Deskstar. It suffers from the same issues that any hard drive is susceptible to.

http://timecapsuledead.org/

No matter what your brand loyalty, back it up.

I am currently using a Buffalo Linkstation Pro NAS which runs Linux. Windows PC and Macs read/write to it every day.

*lovingly typed from a MBP.

[Teasing the Korean]

[rockefeller center]

Hot mainframe operator

[JSngry]

Those feet...I don't usually pay too much attention to feet, but those feet...

[7/4]

Ooh! Data entry babes!

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[Teasing the Korean]

I'll bet there were fewer computer problems back then, because the IT guys were always around.

[7/4]

There was less work getting done too - boink!

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[jostber]

There is always a way to get out:

http://www.opensuse.org/en/

No more viruses, no more pain, only bliss.

[rockefeller center]

There is always a way to get out:

http://www.opensuse.org/en/

No more viruses, no more pain, only bliss.

Hey, another GNU/Linux user. Hai.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Oh well, I spent a lot of yesterday making sure I had backups of the most important stuff (which I always do) and also the less important stuff, which I often can't be asked to backup. Every time I got the error, I had to turn it off and restart. About three quarters of the way through, I went down to make a cup of tea while it was rebooting and found, when I got back, that a startup checkdisk utility that only appears once in a blue moon had started and was finding - and trying to repair - all the errors. So when that was finished, and of course it hadn't repaired all the errors, I worked out that I'd lost very little interesting stuff and backed up the bits that I hadn't already covered and which I hadn't lost and decided to let the rest that hadn't been lost lose itself when I reformatted.

I reformatted this morning. Then, before I started writing data back to the hard drive, ran a virus scan, just in case - but it was OK. And after lunch started putting data back on the external. It takes bleeding ages to reorganise stuff. Just finished. Will order a new external hard drive, in view of what you all say. I shan't junk this one - I'll use the two together, one backing up the other.

Thanks for all your advice, folks.

MG

[jostber]

If you have a Knoppix boot CD at hand you will always have a way to get in:

http://www.ehow.com/how_4690469_ntfssys-er...nux-livecd.html

http://www.knoppix.net/

Another way to fix a broken disk:

http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

[ghost of miles]

Anybody else been having problems with their computers since the Firefox 3.5.7 update?

[papsrus]

No, other than when I go to cduniverse the browser crashes every time. That's the only site it happens with. Weird.

[ghost of miles]

No, other than when I go to cduniverse the browser crashes every time. That's the only site it happens with. Weird.

Yeah--same thing was happening to me with Newbury Comics Saturday night! I placed the order the next day on my computer at work (which hasn't received the latest Firefox update yet) and it went through fine.

[Shrdlu]

At the risk of stating the obvious (I'd better say that), you need an external hard drive though. I lost a lot of precious data when my computer had to have: a new motherboard, processor and main hard drive. (And all because some foreign geeks are clever at making viruses etc.)

The Gestapo took a friend's computer away, based on a faked accusation. If they take mine, they won't deprive me of diddly squat of any value, because all files of value, none illegal, are on a hidden external drive that a sniffer dog would have trouble finding. So, I hope that that drive isn't unstable. (Maybe I should back-back-up everything onto a second external drive. This kind of issue makes one appreciate even more the scripture "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." (Matthew 24:35))

Edited January 26, 2010 by Shrdlu

[Dave Garrett]

Anybody else been having problems with their computers since the Firefox 3.5.7 update?

My seat of the pants feeling was that 3.5.7 was a little more unstable than earlier versions, but since 3.6 is now in production release, I updated to that version last Friday, and it seems to be an improvement.