Partition benefits . . .

[Bill]

I couldn't help but notice someone saying how they wished their data was
backed up to a more secure CD instead of hard drives. Here in the rainforest
( www.rainforestinn.com ) where I work a CD only lasts a few months while a
hard drive that is kept powered lasts years. So we put all our music CD's
and all our DVD's into hard drives as soon as possible before the aluminum
layer of the external media starts to corrode and then be unreadable.

So hard drives are the most reliable storage medium we can get. Tapes are
much much worse here as they can go bad with a weird mold growth in less
than a month.


On 5/8/07 2:50 PM, "Richmond Mathewson" <geradamas at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Well . . .
> 
> Apart from Applejack, on the computers that run Mac OS
> 10 I have, either a second partition (wife's G4 iBook,
> my PPC Mac Mini) or another HD with an OS on it (my G4
> Windtunnel has 4 HDs).
> 
> http://applejack.sourceforge.net/
> 
> apropos de quoi je voudrais to point out that 'Cider'
> in the part of the world where my Mother comes from
> (Somerset/Dorset, England) contains about 12% alcohol,
> plus an extremely large proportion of fusel oils, and
> is exactly what North Americans call "Applejack'.
> 
> Unfortunately the word 'Cider' has been debased, in
> both the American Colonies and Bulgaria to mean either
> Apple juice, or Apple flavoured fizzo.
> 
> While I am on the topic of the American Colonies, I
> see that the Hanoverian usurper is currently visiting
> the Head of the Colonial Rebels in the said Colonies.
> I, as a good Scot, remain loyal to my sovereign,
> Francis II:
> 
> http://www.defendersofscotland.org/monarch.htm
> 
> What I would say in favour of Applejack is that most
> of my crashes (about 1 a week with 10.4.x) a choice of
> Number 5 (cleans out VM) does the trick ()% of the
> time and takes about 1 minute:
> 
> so: reboot into Cmd-line = 2 mins
> 
> Applejack #4 = 1 min
> 
> reboot = 2 mins
> 
> total = 5 mins  
> 
> CF...
> 
> other HD/partition/boot CD:
> 
> reboot = 2 mins
> 
> hanging around while Disk Utility "sees" the HDs = 10
> - 25 minutes
> 
> Disk Utility "struts its funky stuff" = 10 - 25
> minutes
> 
> reboot 2 mins
> 
> NO CONTEST
> 
> Of course, if you want to get on with the work a quick
> reboot from another partition/HD with all the Prefs,
> Plug-in and so forth = 2 mins
> 
> BUT you are still left with the need to sort out the
> problematic initial boot HD/Part.
> 
> or, as a friend of mine puts it "to DeF**k the bl**dy
> thing" - which, on a daft Sunday morning (say about 5
> am) is, albeit, very rude, almost exactly how I feel.
> [And before you rush to say it, 5 repetitions of one's
> Gayatri Mantra, while possibly appeasing Indra and
> various other capricious divine entities, does not
> seem to speed up the time taken sorting out one's
> computer!].
> 
> Should anyone reading this message decide that parts
> of it are quite mad; they are right - Richmond is
> having a lot of fun:
> 
> Your part in the fun is to work out which parts are
> serious, and which parts are a tremendous leg-pull.
> 
> sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
> 
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