Re: Sort of good news

On Fri, 19 May 2006 04:04:30 GMT, pmj commented

"~~seadancer~~" <seadancer1934@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm not very brave myself when it comes to experimenting
on the computer.

LOL!
See what I mean?
Why the (perceived) need for "bravery"?

Remeber...
"It's only a machine"!
:-)

An expensive and breakable machine, loaded with irreplaceable data.

Well, that's the perception.

Of course the data should be backed up, but that's one of the things that
have to be experimented with - and there are those stories of backing up a
blank disk over the data to worry about. OK nobody uses command lines where
you can confuse source and destination so easily because some utilities go
"backup to-destination from-source" and others go
"copy from-source to-destination"

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