New York visit and other information!

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Jul 182006
 

I’m going to be in New York City in a couple of weeks (July 28th or so). Will you be there as well?

Also, my desktop PC at home has been acting up lately–a Windows file got corrupted and I nearly lost all 60 gigs of music I have on that thing–so I just bought an enormous external hard drive to back everything up. Once that’s done, I’m planning on wiping it clean and starting fresh. Just for fun I’m going to make a small partition for a linux distribution (probably Ubuntu), and then put a new XP installation on the rest of the HD.

Here are my queries for you:

  1. What do you think is the minimum size for the Ubuntu partition?
  2. Are there any top secret tricks for installing XP? Components I should opt out of, unusual components I should include? Settings I should change right away? Other stuff I can’t think of?
  3. Are there programs that you use and love that I might not know about (in the case of Ubuntu, any programs at all)?
  4. What are your data backup strategies? I’d like to start backing up my data regularly, ideally in an automated process. Any thoughts there?
 Posted by JHW at 9:55 am
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    Hi Jake, I too am about to (fixin’ to) get an external hard drive for my computer. Can you recommend a good brand? I am very computer-simple. I have an imac that is JUST old enough that it didn’t come with a CD burner, so I want something to help me back up my music and data files in preparation for the sad sad day when the thing finally dies. Any advice is appreciated. Thank you!

   
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