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James<br>Have you/anyone tried Ninite for linux?<br><br>http://ninite.com/linux/<br><br>Aitch<br>===================================================<br>> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:14:45 +0100<br>> From: jwm.art.net@gmail.com<br>> To: kent@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>> Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Defragging Vista<br>> <br>> On 5 October 2010 09:28, David Halliday <david.halliday@gmail.com> wrote:<br>> > Don't you have a backup of all your important files to protect against the<br>> > event of disk failure, theft or little green men zapping your computer with<br>> > ray guns?<br>> <br>> <rant>Look, I've managed to ignore the backup brigade trying to<br>> impress upon me the necessity of backups for well over 15 years now<br>> and I don't intend to take any notice yet. My data as a partition is<br>> never that important that I want to spend money on it. If I delete<br>> something important accidently, I'd rather spend my time embracing the<br>> pain of ext3_undelete than duplicating it and remembering to duplicate<br>> it. If it happens that little green men with ray guns zap it, then it<br>> was never meant to be and that's that. The code I wrote is either<br>> backed up on my website or sourceforge or github.</rant><br>> <br>> <br>> > External HDDs aren't that expensive and are worth every penny.<br>> > If you backup all your documents you can try "Just going for it". Worst<br>> > case scenario you get to test out this useful tool to automatically install<br>> > windows applications: http://ninite.com/<br>> <br>> Worst case is the person whose laptop it is no longer has a working<br>> windows vista.<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Kent mailing list<br>> Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent<br> </body>
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