I've got a Linux server sharing
The server makes a backup of that plus other stuff onto an other hard drive.
Weekly, I burn these archives onto DVDs that I put into a fireproff safe made for computer medias.
It works nice and should allow me to recover all my stuff.
When I change computer, about 1 hour after the initial setup, all my stuff is on it (got a lot of pictures) !
Nice the way you reply to only one of the points I made.
FWIW, According to MS, your assertion about being turned on is not accurate.
"On most computers, PAE is disabled by default. "
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366796(VS.85).aspx
Windows XP memory management is painful!
There was probably another problem. There is ALWAYS another problem.
I don't disagree. There is always something else.
3. The KB article explicitly mentions fragmentation.
So it does. However it doesn't say that you could fix that by running a ram defragmenter. If you could, MS would have included a little ram defrag routine into the hibernate code
Just like Microsoft included a full disk defragmenter with XP? The way they included anti-spyware software with it? The way they included anti-virus with it?
Nope, It's not the MS way to include the full suite of tools needed to keep your box running. That's what they 3rd part market is for!
4. In my experience, use of the ram defragmenter tool eliminates the hibernation issue.
I'd be shocked if it did anything like defragmenting....
Despite this, it IS possible that this could help with the old hibernating with over 1GB of ram issue, as only physical ram needs to be saved to disk when hibernating. If you've just forced everything into the pagefile, there will be very little to write. However, this is a side-effect of what the program actually does, not it actually working, and the problem with hibernating with lots of ram has been fixed now.
Nope. Thinking that perhaps you were right, I disabled the "questionable" software. After going into standby twice during the workday, it blue screened on the third "wake up."
Could be mere coincidence, or it could be that the software adds value. I'm going with the latter.
The problem is not fixed. Windows does not wake reliably.
5. Windows is STUPID when it comes to seeing more than 1GB of RAM. Look into the gyrations required to to enable the PAE settings. Yikes!
PAE is enabled by default in Windows these days, it just doesn't use the extended address space feature on the desktop versions, only things like NX.
PAE is required to see more than 3 to 3.5 GB of ram, not 1GB.
Bzzt! Wrong answer! My machine did not see more than 2GB until I enabled PAE.
PAE was not enabled by default on my machine! There were arcane incantations required in order to make the configuration change.
What you state simply does not match my experiences over time. You may be right for some use cases, but they seem to be exclusive of *my* use cases.
Respectfully,
Anomaly
Read the KB article.
1. Installing the patch didn't fix the problem 100% of the time.
2. Service Pack 2 reduces the frequency of the failures, but doesn't eliminate the problem.
3. The KB article explicitly mentions fragmentation.
4. In my experience, use of the ram defragmenter tool eliminates the hibernation issue.
5. Windows is STUPID when it comes to seeing more than 1GB of RAM. Look into the gyrations required to to enable the PAE settings. Yikes!
You are wrong.
Respectfully,
Anomaly
Nothing in the article? What about the part that says:
"Note It is still possible to experience a hibernation problem after you install this fix if the memory becomes highly fragmented"
Without that RAM defragmenter, the PC bluescreens when hibernating. With it, it hibernates and un hibernates without issues.
You're right. The fact that I presented facts combined with my experience must be completely irrelevant.
Feel free to continue in your superstition about windows memory. That software must be complete crap, and the KB article must be completely wrong.....
Got any science to back up *your* point of view?
Anomaly
I have a 0 byte paging file.
XP does have a RAM fragmentation problem. See
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=330909
I have had good experience with Fast defrag freeware from http://www.amsn.ro/
Windows memory management stinks
Of course, getting Windows to *use* that RAM can be an issue.
I spent a while the other day setting up the BIOS PAE and then editing the boot sequence for Windows to use the PAE flag - and the machine may - or may not - be using more than 2GB, depending what part of Windows you ask......
I hate some things about Windows. Memory management is one of them
Windows makes me CRAZY about this. the OS is internally configured to use an LRU algorithm to aggressively page.
("Technical bastards" who question my use of paging and swap interchangeably in this post can send their flames to
What I found when disabling paging on an XP pro system with 2GB RAM is that the system performance is explosively faster without the disk IO.
Even an *idle* XP pro system swaps - explaining the time it takes for the system to be responsive to your request to maximize a window you have not used in a while.
I was thrilled to have a rocket-fast system again - until I tried to hibernate my laptop. Note that the hibernation file is unrelated to the swap/paging space.
The machine consistently would blue screen when trying to hibernate if swap/paging was disabled. Enabling swap enabled the hibernation function again. Since reboots take *FOREVER* to reload all the crap that XP needs on an enterprise-connected system - systems mangement, anti-virus agent, software distribution tool, and the required ram-defragger which allows XP to "stand by" when you've got more than 1GB of RAM, plus IM, etc
I reboot as infrequently as possible and consider "stand by" and "hibernate" required functions. As a result, I live with XP and paging enabled, and tolerate the blasted system "unpaging" apps that have been idle a short time.
Poo!
No, the problem is that
a) most bad guys don't get caught until they have done it a lot of times
b) the "justice" system lets them go over and over again,
c) it takes forever from arrest until incarceration.
Each of these adds up to make justice neither swift nor sure. That is what makes the idea of punishment less of a deterrent.
If the average person looked out for his neighbor and reported crime when he saw it, if we tried people within a short time (e.g. 24 hours of arrest) and when convicted of a first offense people received significant punishment, crime would drop.
When I got married, the budget was determined by the amount of money I had available to fund the event. My wife and I threw a wonderful party - the process included having friends coordinate the piza and sodas for the rehearsal dinner, and then we funded the reception at a quaint restaurant that my wife loved dearly.
People who take on debt, or worse than that, convince their parents to take on debt to fund a party - particularly when about 50% of marriages end in divorce - make a terrible financial decision.
In the same way, people who can't afford college and decide to take huge student loans to fund the life experience also make a terrible financial decision. It's possible to get married without debt, and a B.Sc. or a B.A. are possible without debt, too.
I think that there's huge value in liberal arts education - and in some ways I got a better technical education than friends who went to school someplace well known with "Tech" in the name....
More than that, I simply cannot understand the logic in borrowing huge money for a degree that qualifies for a job that pays too little to service the debt!
People should look at college/university in terms of an investment. There's no reason to spend a bajillion dollars on undergraduate education, unless you plan to make your career in education and the "brand" of the degree matters - or the connections you'll make in school really matter - like the friend who went to Wharton for his MBA - because in that market, that name matters. (Incidentally, he went to Wharton after working in industry for a few years, setting aside money to pay for the tuition there.)
Other than that, students should work and save money before college, then go to community college for the core credits, then go to state school for their major credits - working during breaks to earn cash to minimize the need for debt.
Why kids think that they are entitled to go to an expensive school, borrowing a crushing amount of money in the process, while trying to party like a rock star and buying endless streams of consumer junk they can't afford (like iPhones) is beyond me. Kids need to learn to live within their means - and that includes education!
Talk to your friends, family, people you've worked with, professors, etc.
I'd say either stick to people that have technical backgrounds or be very specific about what you are looking for. Otherwise, you may get too many useless recommendations.
One problem is that you'll get told about jobs that you are not even close to being qualified for. A lot of people don't understand how broad of a field IT is--they will think of you as a "computer person" and the whole field as "computer jobs". So they'll tell you about network administrator positions when you're looking for a developer position. Or if it is a developer position, it'll be for a language you don't know (or maybe haven't even heard of).
Another problem is that they may not be in a position where their recommendation will do you any good. I'm just speculating here, but I just don't see how a recommendation from someone not in an IT field will do any good (especially at a larger company). For example, someone who works retail at a Target store putting in a recommendation for me for an IT position in the corporate office is probably not going to accomplish anything. Though I guess it probably doesn't hurt for them to try.
So while the parent is correct that personal connections are very important, make sure you are going to the right people and giving them the right information.
Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life. -- Schulz
