John Colby
jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Aug 28 12:55:54 CDT 2003
uhhh... that would be 23 gb. 8~) John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John Colby Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 1:44 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Security measures Ran out of room on the disk. Bigger disk = rebuild. Back in the old days, I would get a 40mb disk drive and partition it into two pieces - 15 / 25 or so, so that I had a "data drive" and a "system" drive. Inevitably the "C:" (System) drive would fill up. Now I have a 120g drive, partitioned 40 / 80. With the whole darned world installed I still have 23mb available on the system drive. And I don't buy the luck thing, too long using it on too many computers with no problems. I would buy "flaky computers" on the part of those with problems though. John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Francisco H Tapia Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 1:31 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Security measures Like I said John, run out and get yourself into some gambling.. you are just hitting winners, with that luck you won't ever have to work another day in your life ;o) why rebuilt? what happend? -- -Francisco John Colby wrote: > Well, as I've stated before, anyone doing the XP thing.... > > I have been using 2K for many years and nary a problem. And yes, I run > updates virtually weekly. Probably close to a hundred by now. I recently > rebuilt one computer when I swapped my main disk, and ran updates for > literally a full day (at cable modem speeds) getting them all installed. As > for software, I am a developer. I have the .net thing going, Office > 97/2k/XP, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Roxio, Streets & Trips, Adobe Photoshop, a > slew of camera and digital video apps, several dot matrix printers, SQL > Server, IIS, Yahoo / MSN / AOL chats, Chess.net for Windows, NAV and who > knows what else. > > I am not exactly your typical clueless user using his komputr to surf the > web. > > John W. Colby > www.colbyconsulting.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Francisco H > Tapia > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 7:13 PM > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Security measures > > > > You my friend should fly to Vegas... you're lucky beyond your own > limits! buy some lotto tickets... gamble on the big game... go down to > the track.. do it now while you're still HOT! HOT! HOT!!!! > > all joking aside, you may either > 1) not be running updates as often as you think. > 2) not setting the pc's to auto-update. > 3) not running that much software as to find the problems from each > patch and hotfix. > > back when I still had my win98 machine (AMD K6-3D) I used to religiously > update my system via the windows update, then they updated the program > so that you could update w/o sending any info to Microsoft. This was > the beginning for me... I downloaded security patch after security patch > to find that my system eventually couldn't open IE w/o crashing... then > I had to use a 2ndary browser like netscape 4 just to get back on the web. > > A co-worker of mine mentioned that he was on the windowsupdate bandwagon > that was until PRE SP4 was loaded on his machine and he began to get > wierd errors and eventually it affected his user profile. now he's not > run a windows update since.. he loaded through SP2 for win2k, and all > the required hotfixes to keep his system secure but nothing runs through > the windowsupdate. Even so much as recently there have been reports of > patches not working right like in winXP sp1 and it causing either > slowdowns or lockouts... etc. you dont' have to take my word for it > just read the problems that creep up continously on TechTV.com or > Woodyswatch.com or other web-zines... > > > > > -- > -Francisco > > John Colby wrote: > > >>It's strange that so many people report problems with Windows updates. I >>have 4 computers - an OLD dual Pentium II 233, a "newer" Toshiba laptop > > PII > >>233, and two ~2 year old "modern" computers (1.4g AMD Athlon - > > "homebuilt"). > >>I run windows update religiously and have never had a problem on any of >>them. Win2K Pro, Office 97/2k/XP, NAV, etc. >> >>Further I was the Sys Admin for the screw company and regularly updated >>their ~12 computers - Gateway / Dell. Always just applied all SPs, > > updates. > >>Always worked. >> >>John W. Colby >>www.colbyconsulting.com >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >>[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Francisco H >>Tapia >>Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 5:17 PM >>To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues >>Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Security measures >> >> >>Steven W. Erbach wrote: >><snip> >> >>>VERY good advice. I use Norton Ghost on a regular basis though I have >> >>never >> >> >>>needed to make the Ghosted drive the main drive due to a failure of the >>>primary. I assume that all that needs to be done is for the master/slave >>>jumpers to be moved around and you're back in business, right? >> >> >>I create images not ghost to a mirror drive... the diffrence is you can >>(depending on the amount of data on your main hdd) have 2-3 or more >>images on one hdd... I've got an old 300mb Original image for win2k w/ >>nothing loaded except the SP2 patch and Office 2000. It's quite a bit >>easier this way cuz you can just take your corrupted OS dump the image >>on it placing you back before the patch was installed. Windows Update >>unfortunately loads a whole lotta stuff that more often than not breaks >>your stable OS. >> >> >> >>>>>Mozilla Thunderbird << >>> >>> >>>You're one of quite a number of people that have said that OE and Outlook >>>are to be avoided. Thanks for the input. >> >> >>I was a DIE hard OE user until very recently... I have never liked >>Outlook because it causes system instability and that's when it's >>working right!... The main reason that I always stuck w/OE was because I >>liked the integration between it and Hotmail, but have recently been >>introduced w/ a little program called Hotmail Popper (www.boolean.ca) >>it's very neat... you can now use ANY email program to access your >>hotmail account, and it's free.. and works.. so far so good at least.. >>I've been using ThunderMail full time now for almost a week and find >>that all the features I liked in OE are better in Tbird. PLUS now I use >>mailwasher less because Tbird has built in Junk Mail detection... so far >>no false positives. >>-- >>-Francisco _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com