Subj : computers was: Resend mov To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Tue Jun 23 2020 17:29:00 Subject: computers was: Resend moving or not was: C Hi Nancy! BM> Just uploaded "Part 1" so I don't get too large a packet. Problem BM> would be more with the OLMR than any other part. Plus it ended up BM> yours was message #12345 - easy to memorize! (Plus different colours BM> and markers.) NB> You just had too many messages there from Daryl and me... At NB> least this isn't a multi-hundred message packet... Not yet anyway!! BM>>> There are some things and applications where Windows is a necessity. NB>>> Agreed, reluctantly... ;) And that's partly why Richard has a NB>>> selection of computers of his own... some with Linux, some with DOS, NB>>> some with Windows, depending on what he needs/wants.... BM>> I'm sort of visualizing someone browsing in front of a collection of BM>> computers like one would browse a magazine rack! NB>> Not quite.... ;) But he does have them all around him as he sits NB>> at his computer desk.... most are some sort of laptop.... :) BM> All makes sense when one thinks about it a little. Different machines BM> for different jobs. Here I could combine computers but easier and BM> better to have some as dedicated to a particular job. No one-size- BM> fits-all rule! NB> Exactly. :) He likes to do his internet browsing, etc with his NB> linux machine, but some websites require windows of some sort... NB> And some of the programs he writes are for more than one NB> platform, so he has to test them out on different machines with NB> different OSes... and so forth... ;) I haven't run across a website in some time requiring Windows, but that could be because the Ubuntu version of Firefox has gotten better at decoding the Windows commands. Or the Iowa Attorney General has gotten after them. Still, if one (Richard) wants to run a programme on various platforms one needs to test with the various platforms. Maybe for initial ease and convenience put it together on a virtual machine, but for the final verification steps pretty much need to run on a true machine. BM>>> A while back I had a problem with some thumbdrives - not an off-brand BM>>> -- and the repair required Windows - not even an inkling of a BM>>> consideration for Mac much less Linux. IMO a bit short-sighted. NB>>> One could say that... :) BM>> I'll admit to barely having an idea of the work to create a repair BM>> utility -- I know it's a lot of work! Seems like it is something that BM>> should have been done by now but for whatever reason hasn't. Know I'm BM>> not the only one who has screwed up thumbdrives; I'm probably like BM>> 99.9% of those who have who has no idea how to create a repair utility BM>> and so relies on that 0.1%. NB>> Richard might be able to do it.... but I don't know if he has, or if NB>> he'd want to.... :) BM> It seems not to be a simple job as there are no Linux-specific repair BM> utilities -- of course someone has to be first! NB> True... :) Sort of along Richard and others testing their programmes on a real machine I did find one little issue with trying to repair a bad thumbdrive on a Virtual Windows machine running on a Linux machine: if the Linux machine doens't detect the thumbdrive the virtual machine certainly won't! NB>>>> I've done that many a time with DOS, for the same reason... and yes, NB>>>> one really doesn't want to wait until it was really tight... BM>>> In my DOS Days I used to edit saved files to keep within the 2048 byte BM>>> cluster size -- don't know if was worth the work but was a good review BM>>> of the material! NB>>> If things tended to always be tight, it might have been worth the NB>>> work... Of course nowadays, the basic cluster size is a lot larger NB>>> than that, so you end up wasting space with those smaller files... ;) BM>> Solved that problem with a 3 TB hard drive! ...414 GB (17%) used -- BM>> wellllll, maybe was a bit of overkill! NB>> Ummmm, yes..... I'd say so.... just a bit of overkill... For NB>> now, anyway... ;) BM> Too much storage is better than not enough. I had semi-calculated how BM> much I probably needed, based on the old computer's storage, the BM> tacked-on external drive, etc. Must have counted something twice! NB> Or what was newly available was obviously going to be at least NB> enough, and then some... ;) Something like that! :) ...Better too much than not enough! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Shortest distance btwn 2 points is not very interesting.-Rube Goldberg --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .