FR withdrawal!

8/24/02 | me

[Syncro]

I am going to have to show this thread to my daughter.

When I first got a computer, and it had a glitch in it, I tapped it a few times with my hand.

My daughter said, "Daaad, it's not a television!"

LOL

[John Jorsett]

After Gateway lied to me about shipping a new machine, I switched from Gateway to Dell, and purchased their extended warranty (3 years). Well worth it. I had a floppy die, my video card die, and the main speaker amplifier/woofer die. All replaced promptly.

For my latest machine, I just went ahead and built my own, since I wanted some features that I wasn't going to find off-the-shelf at Dell. For most people, however, I'd say buying Dell would be the smart move.

[John Jorsett]

By the way, I recommend a program called "Second Copy". I installed a second hard drive and have it copy all of my changed data to that drive each night. With that plus my nightly tape backup and periodic backups to CDROM, I'm pretty confident that I won't lose data to anything short of a fire that consumes my entire house.

[Fracas]

The old 'Unplug the computer first' advice. Excellent advice and so obvious that it's frequently overlooked. As is, unfortunately, TURN ON THE POWER.

I transfer important data from my main computers to my laptop. I do have back-up CD-ROM's, but I took some to a conference and the extras 'walked' during my presentation. Unlike the State Department, I know where my laptop is at all times.