Subj : Re: computers was: Resend mov To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Tue Jun 30 2020 18:35:48 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 23-Jun-2020 17:29 <=- BM> Subject: computers was: Resend moving or not was: C 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 linux NB>> machine, but some websites require windows of some sort... And some of NB>> the programs he writes are for more than one platform, so he has to test NB>> them out on different machines with different OSes... and so forth... ;) BM> I haven't run across a website in some time requiring Windows, but BM> that could be because the Ubuntu version of Firefox has gotten better BM> at decoding the Windows commands. Or you are just going to different websites.... ;) BM> Or the Iowa Attorney General has gotten after them. That could work for Iowa ones... BM> Still, if one (Richard) wants to run a programme on various platforms BM> one needs to test with the various platforms. Maybe for initial ease BM> and convenience put it together on a virtual machine, but for the BM> final verification steps pretty much need to run on a true machine. Pretty much... 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... :) BM> Sort of along Richard and others testing their programmes on a real BM> machine I did find one little issue with trying to repair a bad BM> thumbdrive on a Virtual Windows machine running on a Linux machine: if BM> the Linux machine doens't detect the thumbdrive the virtual machine BM> certainly won't! True. :) 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... ;) BM> Something like that! :) ...Better too much than not enough! True. ;) ttyl neb .... If laughter is the best medicine, let's take a double dose. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .