Robert Fisher wrote: >> Nothing is more soul destroying than doing work for >> someone and it goes to custard. >> > Recently I backed up data on a friend's PC to my USB > portable HD, repaired the PC and a few days later went > back to restore from the backup only to find the backup > HD stuffed. Even a forensic expert could not recover > anything. (I suspect that they had dropped the drive as it > was in a different place from where I had left it but that > did not help the situation.)
Lesson - if you're doing a pre-fix back-up to restore on a later visit, back it up on media that you take away with you. I'm currently visiting a friend most Thursday evenings and helping him get up to speed with his new computer in return for a meal (which wife and kid come along to too). He's impressed with the whole idea of FLOSS and the software-as-a-service paradigm as opposed to software-as-an-expensive-product. He also has a lot to say about apps being over-complicated for a normal user whose expertise is in a field other than computers. (IT gurus laugh at "dumb users" but can you prep someone for surgery or brew a beer that people will actually buy?) Yuri
