second look i strongly beleive ujwal had a bitter experience NOT because the OS he was using failed him to his expectation but truly as he mentioned the fault is to believed in something.
OS fail, hardware fail, even smallest piece of software carefully written would have software bugs or rooms for improvemt. The reliability of data storage depends on several dynamics. Power failure in the SMPS, software crashes, file system in the pendrive(FAT?), cair and handeling, viruses(maybe),durability etc software is not just the one thing that can go wrong. Sooner or latter you are bound to face with all the above problems. My personal approach is expect things to happen, short whats important, if uptime is important have failover servers same as if data is important spend fraction of cost of data for backup. Back in my school days, sometimes i use to skip tiffin to but floppies, really... we had dialup internet those days, service like rapidshare, megaupload,gmail drive werent popular, didnt exist, cost $$$, didnt knew something as flexible as pendrive in the market, not even a CD writer. 5-6 years ago CD writers were as rare (or out of reach in terms of $$$) as blue-ray disk now, here in Nepal. Yet use to scan those floppies for bad sector, save it from dust, moisture and had single person handeling, stored multiple copies of the same document and had 4 gb partition in my 20 gb hard disk reserved for a friend. We use to meet monthly least in either of our home to store my important data in his computer and his important data in my computer. Like WORM these days virus were popular those days. Life was difficult then but i still have each and every piece of document that dates back 8 years ;) memories..... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
