Notes on Backup
August 20, 2008 at 7:25 pm Leave a comment
I made a very brief note about a thing called ccApp.exe. An *.exe file is an ‘exec’ file and it does something. In fact it used to be almost the only executable other than a batch file. Sigh. Anyway, the solution for me was simply to uninstall Norton Save & Restore (because their advice was not to mess with that little executable file)…because a real restore was going to be from the cd anyway. I may have to input a registration number, but I have it. I don’t follow Windows conventions on storing data because I’ve found them generally disastrous; My Documents isn’t something I generally use…except on Rose’s old computer…which backs itself up faithfully to its little external drive. I just don’t want to lose the setup. It takes a long time to do it.
I’ve also started on using Ubuntu. That is, I have the *.iso download, and I’ve either pointed at the burner for that or installed it…I think I installed it. (I might be getting tired again.) You see…with an operating system off a disk…you can take a nice picture of one disk…and put it on another. Theoretically. We’ll see how it works. Since point-to-point isn’t the logic employed, but rather named distribution (with NTSF as far as I understand it simply running a 64-bit version of a File Allocation Table, so where I say it is matters more than where it is, you see?)…never mind. I think I may have burnt out for the day.
Sizzle.
–Glenn
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The notes I’m working on are actually about the research project I began a couple of decades ago, and the philosophical observations that prompted it. I’m sure it wouldn’t be accepted as formal work. Hell, if I walked into an Ivy League school I would probably cease to exist because they wouldn’t believe in me.
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