On May 15, 6:35 pm, Linonut <lino...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Erik Jan belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>
> >> There's certainly nothing easy about running Windows, except for the
> >> ease with which it can be irrecoverably broken.
>
> > When I visit them, I take a few CDs with me: MCNLive (Dutch Mandriva
> > Live CD)+ empty CDs and an empty DVD; also a CD with the newest programs
> > (and updates), like OOo, Firefox and plugins like Noscript and
> > Adblockplus, Thunderbird, ZoneAlarm free, AVG antivirus and antispyware,
> > Hosts.zip, Hijackthis.exe, Startup.exe, Spywareblaster.exe,
> > Spybots&d.exe, Adaware.exe, Irfanview.exe+plugins, Windowsdefender. The
> > third CD is PartitionMagic. All this makes a useful tookit to salvage
> > data or clean an infected Windows Computer.
>
> I had a rescue disk save my ass today.
>
> My daughter brought back her old laptop from school, the one that went
> belly up, the one we replaced with yet another DELL system.
>
> So I take it, stick in a GParted CD, and boot it up. Cool, it seems to
> work well. I remove the NTFS partition.
>
> Then my wife walks in, sees me working on it, asks if I fixed it. "Nah,
> not yet."
>
> She then says, don't forget to get her pictures off of it.
>
> Gulp.
>
> I'm thinking, what? She told me she got everything months ago!
>
> My ass was, at that point, grass.
>
> So I spent some time googooing. I burn another CD, SystemRescueCD,
> boot it, and then use a nice little command-line app called TestDisk to
> detect the NTFS partition, and then rebuild the partition table.
So being the big-time Linux advocate that you are... why is your own
daughter running Windows instead of Linux?
According to you it's just as easy to use, reliable and has apps that
are equal to or better than what's available on Windows.
Yet your own daughter uses Windows and not Linux.
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