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sbb78247
John said:
and you were told to go **** yourserlf???
HTH HAND and GFIA
and you were told to go **** yourserlf???
HTH HAND and GFIA
J
John Doe
Troll
sbb78247 said:
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Mxsmanic
John said:
That's the view worldwide. That's why computers still have disks.
It takes less time to back up to tape than to back up to flash
devices. And tape is much cheaper and has much greater capacity.
You must not have much to back up, or you have hundreds or thousands
of drives on hand.
That may be why some average personal computer users seriously believe
that flash drives are a practical archive and backup medium.
I don't have a problem. I have experience.
J
John Doe
Mxsmanic said:
This is amusing. You're incapable of quoting more than one level in
your replies, yet you continue babbling about archiving stuff.
I guess personal computer users use tape drives a lot over there in
France.
To my creativity, 1 GB is a lot.
Once again, what do you use terabytes worth of archives for?
Are you a modern Leonardo da Vinci?
lol
Most typing chores are done for me by my computer. I never make a
spelling error.
My computer obeys verbal commands, lots of system wide scripts. I
copy a file name simply by saying "get name". To take a word to the
previous window, I say "2 get switch". I enter clipboard contents
into a text box and search by saying "1 put go". Those are a few out
of very many systemwide scripts produced by a small user interface
vocabulary. Rudimentary tasks are automated and activated by two or
three syllable voice commands. Much of my computer gaming is
automated. If you do macroing/scripting, voice activation takes you
to the next level.
What are advanced PC user skills, in your opinion?
I think part of Mxsmanic's motive for spewing nonsense is jealousy.
He can see that toys are easier to come by over here in the states
and that rubs him the wrong way.
Oh well.
OINK!
T
Thomas Wendell
John Doe said:
If the HD fails (the one with your user credentials and encryptment keys)
then that USB flash drive is also dead as what comes to the contents of it,
I Think..?????
More on XP/2k3 EFS
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/cryptfs.mspx
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Tumppi
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Most learned on these newsgroups
Helsinki, FINLAND
(translations from/to FI not always accurate
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Mxsmanic
John said:
You don't remember what you wrote?
People who are serious about backups often do, no matter where they
live. I have two DAT drives myself.
I have about 700 GB of online storage, and I need the means to back up
all of it, if necessary.
They can be inferred by measuring productivity.
I stopped playing with toys a long time ago.
J
John Doe
Mxsmanic said:
Quoting context is a common practice/courtesy here on USENET.
You are silly IMO.
What is it?
Pornography? Copyrighted works? Is something getting lost in the
translation of my question?
M
Mxsmanic
John said:
I did. Don't you remember what you wrote?
Everything on all my disk drives.
Everything on all my disk drives. I learned long ago not to attempt
piecemeal backups. Full backups are the most reliable backups.
J
John Doe
Mxsmanic said:
Did not.
Something was lost in the lack of quoting, again.
Windows and your programs use 700 GB?
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Mxsmanic
John said:
No, but that's the capacity of the drives, so I have to be prepared to
back up as much as 700 GB.
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JAD
Mxsmanic said:
Thats crazy talk
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Blinky the Shark
Clint said:
<reading whole thread>
I don't have a dog in this fight, but I do have a datapoint. I ran
across a *64-gig* USB flash drive today. I had no idea anybody was
making them that large. It was almost $3,000 US. Yow!
J
John Doe
Blinky the Shark said:
Why don't you post a link?
A few days ago, I picked up a 1 GB USB flash Drive for $20 at the
local megastore. At the other large store, many of their flash
drives are on sale, and prices of others have dropped 20% in the
last week. Not that I would buy at a local store (with that $20
exception), but just for reference.
Except for handling a flood of original spam/troll posts, the only
filter you need is ignore subthread (ignore thread branch). It's the
most powerful filter, unfortunately some newsreaders don't do it.
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From: Blinky the Shark <no.spam box.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Subject: Re: Like your USB flash drive?
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Blinky the Shark
John said:
I don't know how to post a link to a piece of paper.
That said, it was Tiger Direct's paper catalog.
I don't filter the whole thread. I filter Google Groupers. So thread
and thread branch filters are irrelevant. As for the (still unwritten)
page on specific filters, I'm talking about syntax for rulesets for
specific clients. The regs at news.software.readers have submitted ones
for news clients I don't know myself.
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John Weiss
John Doe said:
I have a Memorex and a pair of Crucial Gizmos, all in 512 MB. All work just
fine.
Those who don't shop around and check the specs may be disappointed, though.
Some older drives may still be marketed as "USB 2.0 compatible" when they're
actually USB 1.1 compliant. I've seen that in the past (up to 6 months ago,
anyhow), though I don't know how common the [mal] practice still is...
M
Mxsmanic
JAD said:
No one will ever need more than 640 KB of RAM.
J
John Doe
Blinky the Shark said:I don't know how to post a link to a piece of paper.
Posting a link to a mirage would be very difficult too.
Whatever it is, you can't find it on Tiger Direct's web site or any
place else on the Internet? Do you remember what it was called or
the manufacturer name?
Some manufacturer could have combined lots of flash memory and added
a USB connector. Anything is possible.
So if your Google Grouper starts a thread, you have a thread without
an original poster?
Ignoring a subthread (or a whole thread if it be) started by the
author you want to filter eliminates the problem. Otherwise you will
be doing the typical clumsy filtering. Your threads will contain
phantom posters and will be difficult to follow.
That's what trips up clumsy kill file users. After the initial
infatuation with PLONK, they stumble over all of the replies to the
person they don't want to read. Oh well. The ability to ignore a
thread branch solves that problem.
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Blinky
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Subject: Re: Like your USB flash drive?
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John Doe
John Weiss said:
I was thinking that about the PNY 1GB drive I just got from Wal-Mart
for $20. It says "USB 2.0 compatible" but it runs at 1/4 speed of
the Kingston and Corsair I have. I wasn't really surprised. I'll
probably keep it anyway, use it for occasional redundant backups,
take it with me, and if it gets broken it's no problem. At least
until six months from now when I can get fast 2 GB flash drives for
$20. I think it's an actively consumer driven market, ordinary users
probably are eating them up.
Surprisingly the Kingston DataTraveler II (256 MB) writes fast as
the Corsair (1 GB) at about 13 MB per second (specified).
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Blinky the Shark
John said:
And usually I do enjoy a challenge. But it's been hot and humid and
I've been cranky.
I didn't look. I provided one source (the URL isn't hard to figure out)
for anyone interested enough to do a search or two.
Brand name is Kanguru. I don't know that hame from anywhere else, but
Tiger has a whole page of their stuff. Their stock number for it is
I46-2060. Their price is $2,799.99 US. "Kanguru Flash Max Drive"
At my favorite retailer, I find six or seven brands of thumb drives.
I've kept with Lexar and Corsair. The other of the three they stock in
the largest quantities (even more than Sandisk, I'd say) is "PNY" (or it
may be "PCY"). I've not seen that brand elsewhere, and know nothing
about it. Has it a reputation? If so, is it good or bad?
The GG's posts do not appear.
I'll still interact with the *non* Google Groupers. I just won't waste
any time on the Google Groupers. If I wanted to kill the thread (or the
thread branch), I would.
I wouldn't know about clumsy kill file users. I'm very precise with
mine. Including not killing a whole thread with an atrillery round when
I can just pick off the Google Grouper with one slug from my sniper
rifle.
Yep -- there are incompetent users of any tool.
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Blinky the Shark
John said:
I just asked you what you knew about this brand in my other reply to you
on this thread.
That's good enough as an answer to my elsewhere question. Thanks.