On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:17 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > This is such a heart-warming story for me. It makes me glad knowing that I'm > not the only person on earth that computers hate.
I think you'll find many friends in that club ;) Although I managed to set up my new wireless router yesterday without too much gnashing. > I will never buy another Western digital hard-drive, and especially never > another MyBook. I have a couple of Seagate USB enclosures at the moment. I've had one fail on me, which is why I now use two of them. I haven't read anything into the failure as any brand will have failures occasionally so I need to be prepared for it. > The only "positive" thing I can say about them is Windoze-XP didn't seem to > have any problem blowing away the pre-installed CRAPWARE. First thing I did with my drives was reformat them to HFS+ (the Mac system) as I wanted to use them with Time Machine. All I want in a hard drive is bulk storage and I'd never allow them to install software on my computer. If I couldn't prevent the installation I'd send the drive back. > I wish I had an answer for making folders "sharable" in Vista, but the only > Vista computer I have has only one shared folder & all of the > contents/sub-folders were auto-magically shared as well. I've had problems sharing in Windows, Mac and Linux. I never seem to be able to get it to work consistently across multiple platforms so in the end I gave up and started using sneakernet. It's pretty rare that I need to share anything these days. Sharing printers was even worse. The answer to that was to buy a laptop and carry it over to the printer :) Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
