Sinister Midget wrote:
> On 2007-01-09, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted
> something concerning:
>> Will bad backups doom Windows Home Server?
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Microsoft just announced it's working on Windows Home Server,
>> | which among other features, will automatically back up files on
>> | all PCs in the home. But if the product uses the same kind of
>> | brain-dead backup built into Windows Vista, this is a product
>> | that will be dead on arrival. The backup tool built into Windows
>> | Vista may be the worst utility every packed into an operating
>> | system. It doesn't allow you to back up individual files, folders
>> | or even file types. Instead, you have to back up every single
>> | file and folder of broad generic types. For example, if you want
>> | to back up a single picture, you have to back up every single
>> | graphic of every graphic file type on your entire PC, including
>> | all the graphics that Vista itself uses. This means you can be
>> | forced to back up hundreds of gigabytes of files if you only want
>> | to back up a few family photos.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/4303
> How can this be?? There's *video* that shows how wonderful it is!
> You can't fool cameras. Right? Or Windolts?
But, but, but, what if he didn't watch the video?
How can we brainwash him with subliminal messages, if he doesn't watch
it?
Quick, we must send him that video now. Every problem will be solved,
if only he s e e s t h a t v i d e ooooooooooooooo!!!!
>> Time to grin, Peter.
>>
>> The village fool will run away.
>
> If they make the free backup work, few will need the new product. If
> they screw up the free one, few will want the new one because they
> won't trust it.
Damn! And here was me thinking that Vista "fixed everything"!
--
K.
http://slated.org - Slated, Rated & Blogged
.----
| "We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support
| any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the
| success of liberty.â - John F. Kennedy
`----
Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) on sky, running kernel 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6
08:33:04 up 53 days, 54 min, 4 users, load average: 0.16, 0.40, 0.42
|
