Re: Starting over (off topic)

"1st Century Apostolic Traditionalist"
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You ladies never heard of backing up all your files on DVD-RW disks?
My computer prompts me each month to back them up.
Takes a few mins to add on last months files.

This was my work PC. I am *not allowed* to back up non-work related material
onto anything and am prevented from doing so by various network and security
settings. The PC I have at work also doesn't have a burner in it and the
thumb-drives that are function at work are communal ones which aren't
suposed to be taken outside let alone home without permission. To add to the
misery, about a year ago they removed administrator rights from everyone so
that we could no longer install any program that wasn't on the 'approved'
list and kept on the network (so they could keep track of licence
agreements) so all the nifty and helpful software I had installed when I did
have admin rights can not be replaced, even though I still have the
installation disks in many cases.

Home is a different kettle of fish where I have an external hard drive, a
DVD burner and an 8Gb thumb drive and admin rights to both of the PCs we
run. Back-ups occur roughly fortnightly or whenever I upload more photos
from the camera.

Theoretically I could have gone through my work PC and if the various files
I wanted to keep could be forced into a text or MSOffice friendly format and
made less than 2MB I could have e-mailed them to myself, but on the whole I
don't try to work around the computer security protocols have put in place
even though I probably could. Proffesional computer people really hate being
shown up by ingenious lay people (read 'hacker') and I would immediately be
sacked. Despite the pain of losing all my files, doing something that puts
my job at risk just to keep them is hardly a good move, especially when
finding another job these days is all but impossible.

No, I'll just bemoan the fact that they are gone and (more to the point)
apologise to the folks here for losing my place and losing several draft
replies.

Yowie


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