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Zebee Johnstone wrote:
> In aus.computers.linux on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:50:08 +0000
> gary <glralph@tpg.com.au> wrote:
>> Volvo (so who do I ring When Ubuntu goes belly up?if you know someone I 
>> would be to happy to ring them ) Volvo can help me over the phone or 
>> come out to me failing that i can reset the electrics to limp mode a bit 
>> like using the live disk so I can get to a work shop
> 
> Well... supposing a friend rang you and said "my truck's stopped.
> There was a noise I think and its stopped.  You have to tell me how to
> fix it"
> 
> I think you'd tell him something like "hey dopey, you have to tell me
> what sort of noise and where from".
> 
> And if he said "I'm just a driver, I don't know or care, you have to
> fix it" I suspect you'd tell him to bugger off until he was willing to
> use a bit more sense....
depends on how urgent I needed to get the freight in us truckies ain,t 
the best at road side repairs
> 
> So you need to always give people as much information as you can.
> Always quote error messages in full.
> 
> Now if you want someone to come out and fix your machine the way Volvo
> fixes your truck, you can.  Of course you will pay lotsandlots....  Up
> to you.
Thanks for that nice peace of advice but I don,t want some one else to 
fix it I was asking for help on what I should do I went back and tried 
to restart my computer and all it would let me do was start in safe mode 
windows bugger was hoping to avoid windows stuff
> 
> But if you don't want to pay lotsandlots then you have to realise that
> people are helping you because they are nice people
i hope no one felt that i was saying anything other than that
.  Me, I'm paid a
> fair amount to do this stuff by my employer,
cool
  you get it for nothing.
> But only if you are willing to do a bit of work yourself.  Willing to
> think about what you are asking.
like I said just tried to restart it to get the text so i could write 
down then email it here but no luck so i am lost
> 
> If you don't want to think about it but jsut want to be able to say
> "my truck's stopped and you have to fix it" then you get to pay me a
> lot of money for that.   
i don,t think i said anyone has to fix it! i was simply asking for some 
much needed help if i have to pay someone to fix it just like my truck 
when it breaks if havent got the skills to fix it i will pay someone but 
i think my truck is a lots and lots more to fix than this machine or has 
the price of new computers gone up or something? why do you think trucks 
are cheap to fix?


>>> Note-- you did remember to make backups didn't you?
>> whats a hard disk ?I am only a truck driver how do you make back ups 
>> this thing ain,t got a reverse gear on it? or has it?
> 
> backups are copies of data.
oh I see why don,t they call them data copys??????????????
> 
> If you have really really important pieces of paper, you can carry
> them with you and use them all the time... and some bastard spills
> coffee on them and they disintegrate.  It's your private data, you are
> the only one who had it, if you only had that one copy, then you are
> stuffed.
so what do i tell the wife boss are we stuffed can the stuff not be 
recovered?
> 
> So the wise person 
i never said i was wise but thanks for the reminder
photocopies them and keeps the copy safe somewhere.
> That's what a "backup" is, a copy of you data so when (not if, when)
so this sort of thing with  computers playing up is not a rare thing i 
take it
> the copy you are using gets lost or damaged you still have the
> information and can make another copy.
i think i get the idea now
> 
> Of course you have to keep making your backup copies, 
weekly or daily?

because what
> your data looks like now isn't what it looked like last year.  If the
> only copy you have is from last year you will feel a right idiot....
most of the stuff is minutes from body corporate meetings and emails 
from other unit owners in the different unit blocks we own and a heap of 
photos a lot of which are saved on flicker is there something like 
flicker so you can save files/data on? will google that

  And you will get no sympathy either.
I am sorry if anyone thought i was after sympathy if i was after that i 
would try lifeline or something
> 
> So plan what you need to copy, how you'll do it, where you'll keep
> that data,
I guess you are talking about one of those external hard drive things
> 
> Your job is to start looking on the net for ideas on how to do that.
> Once you have ideas on what has to be backed up and how, then you can
> ask if you have the right ideas and if your understanding is correct.
what sort of external hard drive should i buy and can i save email 
addresses on them will google it to see if thats what i need to buy but 
if you can recommend one i will buy it if you can,t trust a guzzi rider 
who can you trust lol
> 
> Zebee
thanks for your advice will look into all those thing you recommended  Gary
P.S. may have to buy the cook some flowers/or her own laptop she can 
play with and put her stuff on as this puter is a bit buggered