On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 10:38 +0100, Barrys linux mail wrote:
Wow Thanks for the advice,what i think i will do is look at the drive copy software mentioned and also look at the one on www.easus.com/disk-copy and see if i can back it up to DVD.
G4L will back up to a compressed image on an FTP server so maybe that will work..but to make the image small enough you need to be using the ntfs clone mode rather than the raw mode.
It is possible to connect two desktop boxes to one lcd monitor isn't it (by a double connector)?
You really need a KVM switch to swap the monitor keyboard and mouse. There are cheap 2 port ones available but the very cheapest (and some of the expensive ones) can be a bit unreliable at giving you your keyboard back after a swap.
Would really like to move completely to Linux as Don't want Vista and fed up with Microsoft money grabbing new operating system launches to get us to buy more powerful systems.What next minimum Ram 50GB?
I think the weakness is that most proprietary software is focus group lead..and if you stick too many people in a room and ask them what they think the software should do you will come out with it doing *everything* 90% of which 90% of people won't ever use. OSS on the other hand has features coded as and when somebody needs them badly enough to bother.
MS don't deliberately make the OS a slow heavyweight just to help Intel sell more new CPU's because thanks to OEM bundling and the price of hardware they don't need to. So either it is plain laziness, incompetence or a total lack of understanding as to what people actually want.