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[apex]

1. Previous post about Mackies was dumb. Had flipped around the stupid unreadable manual text, and lo and behold, they're attenuating at center, not boosting. Thanks to Roland for uttering the word "attenuation," and jump-starting my exhausted little brain

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[wetnun]

Well, typically you can back up your data. Or you can back up the software installers. But you can't back up already installed software in a form that can be installed again.

I *think* if you have a valid software license then you can grab a copy of the installer and burn that to DVD. Since it would be the same thing as losing your original install media and replacing it. The media isn't the important part legally, it's the license that goes with it. :)

[rakpointzero]

so ong as you are talking pc:
It depends on the application- more advanced applications need the installer to put entries into the registry where windows can call it's components- or user data- though it depends on the app. the only way to be sure that this is the fact is to make a copy of the application path that it is installed currently and run it on a different machine, I have found that a lot of applications become portable when you do this- but not all- photoshop, nero things like this aren't but smaller apps like dvd shrink and install versions of aps like filezilla and firefox seem to work okay- if there is anything that you are missing I would say to bittorrent it and back up your installs- ALWAYS back up your installs (for a lot of software that I use regularly I have versions going back to win95)
outside of that you could ghost the drive to another drive, but restoring or using that drive would have no changes to your current data

[apex]

Thanks for the clarification, it was totally bothering the crap out of me. I can't believe they even released Dominion: what an embarassment. I mean, shit... it was obvious that they had stolen a wild-west soundstage, and you could see DUMMIES being used as extras in the background. That. Is. Sad.
Especially when compared to The Beginning, I totally don't get why they didn't disinherit Dominion entirely.

[apex]

The DVD release is understandable, but shit... anybody that demanded to see Dominion needs a blow to the head, or something. Even Troma couldn't have made this one likeable.