Dear Lobster -
:)
It is sometimes painful to watch people learn things, isn't it?
She has realized that it is faster for her to simply reformat the hard
drive and reinstall the OS and then port her files from the other computer THAN
it is to properly diagnose and repair.
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Many IT departments work on the same premise
They do not have the skills, time or womanpower
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I worked on the computers for more than 8 hours straight on Sunday and
i still cannot get the main one on the internet at all, which makes it
impossible to download any updated software necessary for troubleshooting and
repair. I can move things from the USB keydrive to the sick computers, but am
concerned about the possibility of the keydrive picking up an infection in
the process. Is that possible?
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Of course it is possible - if the file is infected
it is infected
IBM have been putting a TSM (I think it is called)
security chip into their machine for 5 years - about time it was on all
motherboards
but people do not like the unique identifying (which already exists - every
computer has a bios number
and other unique addressing)
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A tech support friend at work said he will burn some things to CD
which is a great help, but this will not happen for 3 or 4 days.
In the meantime, i have almost no online access at home, and very minimal
from the office... A nice time to be still and quiet.
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:-)
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============Puppy is the most fun (a new version soon will have Opera Browser - it is still smaller than Firefox - so good for small distros- it also has an install to USB keydrive - keydrive seems the adopted term incidentally - when you boot from CD)
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Got the Puppy working from USB keydrive (but this is slower than booting
from CD)
Maybe can be improved - dunno
Also managed to speed up the slow refresh by changing the resolution (from
24 million colours to 16 million)
I always thought the human eye could only see 16 million shades - so what
is 24 million for and 32 million?
The Puppy gets my vote
- do you like the graphic I did?
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Maybe i can get around to adding RAM to that Fedora server in the not too
distant... and then there could be a mirror for CurlChat as promised.
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That would be good
Incidentally tried the
clamshell open source anti virus
slow and crashed
BUT in a few months this will be the best
- no doubt there - excellent potential
Have had to reboot the server several times here
(I think an infected machine - probably a laptop - on the network)
Maybe we need to be using Amida Simputers?
You can use it as a book - know how you turn the page?
Wrist flick .. . .
Lob
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