[HLUG] BACKUP YOUR DATA before messing with linux

[George at dicegeorge.com]

BACKUP YOUR DATA before messing with linux

This was the main point of my presentation
but at the last minute I was told there wasnt any time for me to speak.

I had other improtant things to do yesterday
but I'd promised to come to the presentation.

I think you boys were irresponsible
to enthuse beginners with Linuxes
and giving out CDs
which with one click can reformat a users hard disk
trashing hundreds of hours of work
without stressing the need to backup data
to external hard drives
twice!


george


(first programming was Fortran and punched cards,
then Turing Machines...)

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George at dicegeorge.com" <dicegeorge at hotmail.com>
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [HLUG] Presentation on Weds Night


>i could bring along my sisters old laptop
> to install ubuntu as a demonstration
> in a new partition
> if thats what people want...
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> i have backed up all the data.
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Paul Stenning" <paul at vintage-radio.com>
> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 9:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [HLUG] Presentation on Weds Night
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>> Hi all,
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>> Mark Broadbent wrote:
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>>> Even if you're there to show support and answer questions it would be 
>>> much appreciated!
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>> That's what I'll be doing.  I have nothing prepared to present but I will 
>> answer questions as best I can from a newbie perspective.
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>> I have Ubuntu 7.10 running nicely on my laptop, having given up with 
>> PCLinuxOS.  It really was a "just works" installation with graphics, 
>> sound, wireless LAN etc all correct straight away, which is probably due 
>> to the recent collaboration between Ubuntu and Dell.
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>> I will be bringing the Vodafone 3G Internet router I mentioned, and a 
>> 1-to-3 CD/DVD duplicator.  I'll also try to round up a few extension 
>> leads and network cables etc.
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>> I will aim to get there around 6:30 - 6:45.
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>> Paul
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>> PS - Pete, sorry I haven't had a chance to post a PCLinuxOS CD to you. 
>> I'll have one this evening for you though.
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