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I teach children how to use computers twice a week and the first lesson is: You cannot break that thing by using software! Yes, you can lose data, but that´s just lost time, no real physical damage. Everyone who has sensible data on his/her machine has to make backups, period. If you don´t, then it´s your fault when something happens.
And this "program paranoia" with all that Win3x-babble: I use Win2K and WinXP frequently and try Win3X and even DOS-applications and games regularly (before moving them to the old Win9x-machine) and it never occured to me that a game screwed up my pc. Sometimes stupid spyware tried to install itself, but we all know how to use Firewalls and AdAware, do we?
Being over-cautious can relieve you of a lot of anger, but in most cases you just pass out on opportunities to enjoy yourself.
Boy, was I busy during the past months. Glad to see this place is still alive, although it seems a little sleepy to me. Do you still remember the myspace days?
P.S.: Concerning Partition Magic: Just recovered a partition from a harddrive which was believed to be empty with it. Funny how careless some people are when auctioning things. Used it to setup my multi-boot-system btw, no problems whatsoever in resizing FAT32 and NTFS partitions. It sometimes APPEARS to have crashed, i.e. the graph won´t move at about 40% or so, just let it run overnight and all will be fine, even the drive light will just flash occasionally, let it run!
(Edited by Kommunisator at 4:43 am on Mar. 7, 2002) |
