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Living Room / Re: Be prepared against ransomware viruses..
« on: June 27, 2015, 08:40 AM »
While there are lots of things you can do to protect yourself from being attacked, one thing all of us who regularly make backups should do is keep external backup drives DISCONNECTED except when being used to update our backups.
-mouser (June 26, 2015, 06:48 PM)

I like to keep more than one set of backups (so at any time there is at least one set offline) -- though one set is older than the other.

Perhaps it would also be good to verify that the just-made backups are sound -- and possibly on a different machine (but for many set-ups, may be that's not so practical).  Non-restorable backups don't seem so useful...

After backing up, I disconnect the source drive (so it's now a backup) and start using the drive that's just been backed up to.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS on Linux
« on: June 24, 2015, 09:59 PM »
I've tried some of mouser's software using Wine and my experience is usually that it almost seems to work, but not quite.  May be if enough of us bug him often enough he'll consider Wine as an official target :)

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Living Room / Re: The End of my Macbook Pro Experiment
« on: June 23, 2015, 05:02 PM »
One of the features I appreciate about Macs is (was?) the reliable functionality of booting from external media.  I haven't tried recently, but from what I gather this still works pretty well.  I find this type of thing helpful for trying other operating systems and performing maintenance.

My experience with PCs (at least for notebooks) has been that this functionality doesn't tend to work that reliably if it works at all.  Of course it may just be the hardware I've been using :)

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Living Room / Re: The end of the hard disk
« on: June 23, 2015, 04:47 PM »
I appreciate the speed, noise, and power characteristics of SSDs, however...

My impression has been that the failure characteristics of SSDs leaves something to be desired -- catastrophic loss of everything with no chance of recovering even a small amount seems unfortunately much more likely than common HDD failure scenarios (admittedly I have no numbers to point to).  In the consumer area I haven't found it easy to find things with functionality such as power loss protection (the one SSD I own does have this apparently).

Another aspect I'm wary of has to do with wiping data.  With HDDs it seems clearer that one can blank things appropriately before resale, reuse, disposal, etc.  With SSDs, my impression is that the jury is still out so-to-speak.

What do you think?

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release - Splat (Simple Program Launching and Termination)
« on: June 20, 2015, 06:22 PM »
FWIW, the posted article says the original mention is in issue 449.

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