On October 24, 2002 01:02 pm, Charlie wrote: > On Thursday 24 October 2002 12:27 pm, Tony Castro wrote: > > Norton Ghost would be able to clone your whole hard > > drive onto the bigger one. I use occasionally to image > > my hard drive and i've never had problems with it. > > <snip> > > That's correct Tony; it probably would do the job and cause no grief. But > for a few minor sticking points: > > 1.) I'll never tell a user they need to buy proprietary software to > accomplish a task that can be done for free using freely available existing > tools. The reason is my own but simply put; I don't know whether the budget > of the original poster has the flexibility to buy an utility that may only > be used once, and not all demo versions of software will accomplish the > task(s) required. > 2.) Norton Ghost may be quality software; and work adequately well for most > people, and give no grief, except it's _Windows software_ and I've seen > Windows screw things up just because my face didn't display the correct > expression. Or hadn't bowed to the southwest (from here anyway) and recite > the "Bill Gates is a God" mantra three times. GNU/Linux will oops too at > times, but that's usually a problem in the CTKI (chair to keyboard > interface. *me* in other words) and doesn't usually commit suicide just > because it's asked to work from a different address after it's been told > the new address and has confirmed it knows the new address. > DISCLAIMER: I don't use file sharing software but know some that do. I > think it's bad form but that's just my opinion. > 3.) If the answer to 1.) above is "Are you kidding? I can download it free > from KaZaa or edonkey and use it, I don't have to buy it!;" I stop giving > that individual any help with anything. > > Developers and programmers have to eat too. I don't think it's the right > thing to do and will never advise it. Even as mildly distasteful as I find > MS software and operating systems I try to help people that I know, but I > won't help anyone that pirates a copy of anything. If they break it they're > on their own and good luck to them. > > Just an opinion; and no I don't just run the download edition of Mandrake, > Red Hat, SuSe (8.1 demo), whatever. I buy box sets when they're available > and when I intend to continue using it after testing. That usually means > every second release or more frequently.
Very nicely put Charlie;>)))
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