The Death of Drive C, and The Disposal of 15 Years of Evolution

[howardtayler]

Don't panic. I didn't lose 15 years of data. I lost an evolutionary dead-end. But that's skipping ahead...

UNBOOTABLE_MOUNT_VOLUME is not a happy BSD (Blue Screen of Death) to see when you restart. My 5-year-old PC running Windows XP Media Edition ("it seemed like a good idea at the time") had gone a long time without BSDs, but apparently the

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[jecook]

Interesting.

My way is a LOT more chaotic, and I'm still trying to get everything centrally collected, de-duplicated, and put into a proper place. (and by de-duplicated meaning that I probably have no less then three or four copies of some of my older stuff kicking around, all collected from the five or six machines I've had as my work-horses over the past 15 years)

I don't recommend my way *at all*. :D

[howardtayler]

I'm sure I've got some duplicates, but I don't care. If it's a duplicate of something I need to be working on, it goes front-and-center until it's done, and then it gets filed in the new set of structures. I'll be able to tell the difference using modification dates, if nothing else.

If it's NOT something I need to be working on, who cares if it's a duplicate? My posterity can rifle through these things and wonder why I copied the same business plan in three different locations, but they'll be smart enough not to actually worry about it, because I don't think any posterity interested in rifling through my stuff is going to be STUPID.

[computersherpa]

You can rename the Recycle Bin, you know. :-)

[unixronin]

Though I do agree that "Recycle Bin" is silly. I suspect it was probably renamed to avoid some lawsuit from Apple ... at which point I note that companies sueing each other over mice-nuts crap like that is also silly. The trouble is there are too damned many lawyers, and they all have to find something to do, which usually ends up being bad for someone.

[howardtayler]

Actually, patent lawsuits are like Mutually Assured Destruction. And this is exactly how the patent team at Novell described it to us. Every company wants a good arsenal of patents so that when they (often accidentally) infringe upon the patent of another company, nobody files suit because there will be countersuits, counter-countersuits, and then only the lawyers win.

When a company actually files a patent infringement suit it's usually because they have nothing to lose, or at least THINK they have nothing to lose.

[unixronin]

Actually, patent lawsuits are like Mutually Assured Destruction. And this is exactly how the patent team at Novell described it to us.
Heh. An interesting analogy.

[kazriko]

Heh, I've been pretty much doing it all wrong on my windows 7 system. The nice thing is that they don't seem to regulate data that is on the C: drive but outside of its narrowly defined pockets. Thus, I have C:\Projects for all of my Eclipse data, I have C:\Games for all of my legacy games, etc.

It is good that they got rid of the "c:\Documents And Settings" nonsense though, c:\users makes far more sense.

If they keep working towards what you're describing, eventually they'll reach the "Sugar" interface style of work. Sugar works more like a blog, sorting your documents by when they were created or edited. You can go back a week, or a month at a time and see what you were working on in that time period. No directory structures at all.

Replacing XP

[axiluvia]

Quick question, and probably a long shot, but did you happen to have McAfee, and update it recently? Supposedly the newest update caused a heck of a lot of XP machines to crash and otherwise go nuts.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/22/cnet.mcafee.antivirus.bug/index.html

Re: Replacing XP

[howardtayler]

Norton 360.