Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (23 Viewers)

[Tommy]

Can any body suggest a substitute for proxifier in ubuntu??I need it desperately to run my torrents.......

 

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[icemaη]

Martin, quick tip please..
I've finally got Ubuntu alternate version on a disc... Now I'm planning to install it in a fresh drive (F: )... do I need to take backup of C: too to be on the safer side?

 

[.zero]

Martin, quick tip please..
I've finally got Ubuntu alternate version on a disc... Now I'm planning to install it in a fresh drive (F: )... do I need to take backup of C: too to be on the safer side?

i backed up everything valuable before i switched to Ubuntu last year. but i think as long as your partitions are set then you should have no problem losing your data on a separate drive

 

[icemaη]

Grazie Dru

 

[.zero]

 

[Martin]

Martin, quick tip please..
I've finally got Ubuntu alternate version on a disc... Now I'm planning to install it in a fresh drive (F: )... do I need to take backup of C: too to be on the safer side?

Always a good idea when you're about to do something you don't know well.

 

[V]

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

TBH, I never backed up ANY of my data when installing another OS, be it Linux, Windows, or even that brief moment when i tried to install Mac OS X umpkin:

 

[icemaη]

If I'm going to burn the image on a DVD rather than a CD, the installer will still work?

 

[gray]

You have to make sure your burning software 'knows' that you're burning a CD image to a DVD. Most good burning software will automagically figure this out for you.

I think you'll get an error and it won't burn at all if your software is unhappy with you.

 

[V]

TBH, I never backed up ANY of my data when installing another OS, be it Linux, Windows, or even that brief moment when i tried to install Mac OS X umpkin:

I never backed up anything either, but that's mostly because I have 4xHDD and over a TB of stuff to back up so it'd be kind of pointless.

 

[Martin]

If I'm going to burn the image on a DVD rather than a CD, the installer will still work?

Yep, just use the right format. Tell your burning app you have a dvd iso, it won't know the difference.

 

[Martin]

I never backed up anything either, but that's mostly because I have 4xHDD and over a TB of stuff to back up so it'd be kind of pointless.

You'll need a lot of them

 

[V]

It's been a long time since I've used those, it's all about these babies now.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I never backed up anything either, but that's mostly because I have 4xHDD and over a TB of stuff to back up so it'd be kind of pointless.

I got 2, and the HDD I install my OS's on dont have partitions with critical info.

And good luck getting a "Click of death" on that iomega.

 

[Martin]

It's been a long time since I've used those, it's all about these babies now.

Those? I think I saw them in the museum once

 

[V]

Those? I think I saw them in the museum once

Funny thing is my father used those Zip disks until about a year or so, when I finally decided to introduce him to USB flash. I figured, he knows how to use those, why mess with it? But the disk grew too small.

 

[Martin]

Funny thing is my father used those Zip disks until about a year or so, when I finally decided to introduce him to USB flash. I figured, he knows how to use those, why mess with it? But the disk grew too small.

The zipdisk was a terrible product. It hit the market just before cd recorders became common. So why would anyone buy a zipdrive? The capacity was much less.

 

[V]

The zipdisk was a terrible product. It hit the market just before cd recorders became common. So why would anyone buy a zipdrive? The capacity was much less.

The guy who sold my Dad the finance program for his company, sold him a zip drive as a "handy back-up product". It's not hard to sell my Dad anything computer related.

 

[icemaη]

And you stood there and let him get fooled? Bad son, bad son