>> Games don't have to be complex to be fun. (Tetris, anyone?) They *do*
>> however need to be sufficiently devoid of irritating features like being
>> hard to control or hard to see.
>
> Agreed. Wonder why some phones come with games like golf (HUH??) instead 
> of
> snake or tetris or something like that.

I prefer the slower games where you don't need to be able to press 4 keys in 
1 second to stay alive (tetris!).  Maybe I need bigger keys on my phone, and 
does any phone actually allow you to press more than one key simultaneously?

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"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:

>
>     Gah, I feel for you!
>
>      (Hope you are well).
>
>
>        ~Steve~




more than 4 years) and one on XP. Early on (after my first HD crash which


each on a single physical drive, which means I use the primary partition (C)
for the OS, drivers and programs, and the other partitions (D,E,F) for all work
and data (NEVER saving to "MyDocuments" or "Desktop"). The hard drives are much


In the (very likely) case my OS eventually crashes, I can reinstall or upgrade
without touching the other partitions so there is no loss of data.

This has worked for me for a very long time now, so I generally recommend this
approach. I has certain other advantages, like "defragmentation" is usually a
quick process as you usually only have to run it on the system drive. If I run

partition it installs programs to.

The reason I have 4 partitions is... well, the original idea was one for OS, one
for games, one for sound editing, one for 3D work, everybody has their own
preference.

USB drives are very handy when moving data from one location to another, I just


to update them though...



relatively cheap and making backups is fast and easy... good for lazy and
unorganized people like me.

Hildur

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Hildur K. wrote:

> Early on (after my first HD crash which


> each on a single physical drive, which means I use the primary partition (C)
> for the OS, drivers and programs, and the other partitions (D,E,F) for all work
> and data (NEVER saving to "MyDocuments" or "Desktop"). The hard drives are much

> 
> In the (very likely) case my OS eventually crashes, I can reinstall or upgrade
> without touching the other partitions so there is no loss of data.

I do this.

I mean, *now* I have multiple seperate physical HDs so it's kind of 
unavoidable having seperate logical volumes. But I did it back when I 
only had one drive too. Makes reinstalling the OS that much easier 
without losing work. (If anything on my PC could be considered "work".)

I also have a big folder containing the installers for every program 
I've ever downloaded, so I can reinstall them all quickly without having 
to redownload them. (OTOH, I typically end up downloading a newer 
version anyway, so I'm not sure who I'm kidding...)

-- 
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>
> I also have a big folder containing the installers for every program
> I've ever downloaded, so I can reinstall them all quickly without having
> to redownload them. (OTOH, I typically end up downloading a newer
> version anyway, so I'm not sure who I'm kidding...)

-Ditto-

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>> I also have a big folder containing the installers for every program
>> I've ever downloaded, so I can reinstall them all quickly without having
>> to redownload them. (OTOH, I typically end up downloading a newer
>> version anyway, so I'm not sure who I'm kidding...)
>
> -Ditto-

I gave up doing that a few years ago.  Nowadays I don't install anything 
after the OS until I need it, then I download the latest version and 
install.  Usually faster than searching through CDs anyway ;-)

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>>> I also have a big folder containing the installers for every program
>>> I've ever downloaded, so I can reinstall them all quickly without having
>>> to redownload them. (OTOH, I typically end up downloading a newer
>>> version anyway, so I'm not sure who I'm kidding...)
>>
>> -Ditto-
> 
> I gave up doing that a few years ago.  Nowadays I don't install anything 
> after the OS until I need it, then I download the latest version and 
> install.  Usually faster than searching through CDs anyway ;-)

No no, I keep the installers *on my HD*. ;-) It would take far too many 
CDs... (Do you know how big 3Dmark is?? How about WinXP SP3?)

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

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> No no, I keep the installers *on my HD*. ;-) It would take far too many 
> CDs... (Do you know how big 3Dmark is?? How about WinXP SP3?)

Oh ok, my hard drive wasn't big enough before to do that ;-)  I download too 
much junk, install it, use it a bit then uninstall it...  But yeh, I have 
loads of CDs and DVDs full of old versions of certain programs that I 
probably should get around to throwing away some day.

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Darren New wrote:
> 
> I didn't want to be definite. 

Me neither ;).

> I *have* seen hard drives designed to 
> replace memory sticks in high-end cameras.  (Compact Flash-shaped hard 
> drives, I think?)
> 

Yep, they do exist. But then, it would be pretty hard to fit even 1,8" 
hard disk to CF-slot - it's easy to have 3,5" HD mounted in little case 
with the USB-interface.

-- 
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
    http://www.zbxt.net
       aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid

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Invisible wrote:
> 
> I mean, *now* I have multiple seperate physical HDs so it's kind of 
> unavoidable having seperate logical volumes. 

No, it isn't. With RAID you can combine several HDs to one logical 
volume, which even can hold if one of the disks break down.

> But I did it back when I 
> only had one drive too. Makes reinstalling the OS that much easier 
> without losing work. (If anything on my PC could be considered "work".)

Yep, that's true and very reasonable. You should also RAID the 
work-partition and take scheduled backups ;).

-- 
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
    http://www.zbxt.net
       aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid

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Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>>
>> I mean, *now* I have multiple seperate physical HDs so it's kind of 
>> unavoidable having seperate logical volumes. 
> 
> No, it isn't. With RAID you can combine several HDs to one logical 
> volume, which even can hold if one of the disks break down.

Or just mount the separate volume as a subdirectory of the system 
volume. :-)

Note you can also make "my documents" and "desktop" (and a bunch of 
other system-defined folders) point to anywhere you want, including 
other drives.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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