Posted on 01/24/2017 1:26:33 PM PST by markomalley
In terminal, type “whereis” followed by the name of the program.
Never heard of that one. I use backintime (runs daily via cron). I'll have to check out systemback though if I really need to recover off a catastrophic failure, I prefer to reinstall from scratch. At least it's not as painful as the primitive windows installer.
Indeed. I have no desire to run anything in Wine. That's what virtual machines are for. It's an interesting technical achievement, but not really something I'd use.
Thanks, I hope to try it next time. But isn't a right click with Properties a lot better?
yeah it’s pretty easy to just reinstall linux- but i do have a lot of customizations and non software mgr programs i have to manually install that take me a couple of hours to install and tweak to my liking-
I was able to do a ‘current system live CD’ backup which was quite nice- Will save me a lot of work and customization work-
Would be nice if there was a way to do a complete disk backup of the dual boot disk- as i have loads of windows customizations and tweaks too0- and that one takes me days to do-
Check out youtube for some videos on systemback- I think you’ll like it-
Of course, you’ll still need a license to run Office 2013—on any platform.
I started working with computers on HP-3000 minicomputers. I really loved the way they did backups on those systems. You did backup to tape (1200 BPI reels!). The backup program actually loaded all the boot and configuration information at the start of the first tape. To do a system reload, you booted off the tape, and told it to restore. No other media was required. Unfortunately, this was the only way to defrag a disk, or to level data out if you configured a new disk pack. Fortunately I didn't have to do that often, but I've always wanted a way to do something similar on my PC. On my HP-3000s, I had an average of 20 or so tapes per system, which was time consuming, but absolutely solid from a data restoration standpoint.
If I had a blueray writer (haven't made that jump yet), I'd probably have about the same amount of media. I know I could essentially do a 'dd' to get system images, but that is rather impractical on a day to day basis.
These days, I do my best to keep a list of every program I install that's in addition to the base load, so it's a matter of executing a script to get the programs back, but I still have to look to my backups for deltas of stuff in /etc that I've modified. Backintime does a great job of backing up user data though. Restoring all of /home is painless, and I end up with my desktop exactly the way I had it before the restore. That's one of the really cool things about unix in general IMO. I've never had a successful restore on a windows system anywhere close to the degree I get, because so much stuff is hidden in the registry, and doing registry restores is problematic at best.
[[I’ve never had a successful restore on a windows system anywhere close to the degree]]
System restore on windows sucked- I began with a program called Go-Back- it was pretty good- didn’t matter if a virus or trojan or whatever hit, or if i royally messed up the computer- just did a goback and was back up and running- all programs and customizations etc intack- then they were bought by another company- and the new one was terrible, so i went with rollBackRX- Excellent program- Can keep as many snapshots as you want (Goback could only keep a certain amount)- and also worked at boot level if you wanted so that if your computer got so messed up it refused to start- the boot menu would revert to before the problem happened- I had snapshots a couple of years old- just to have icnase computer got really messed up and registry got hosed too bad- Rollback takes care of registry too- it is a complete system disk snapshot- copies everything- and it’s relatively quick too- a couple of minutes- It’s only about $50- well worth the price-
I switched to linux a year or so ago- and wanted something similar- Systemback was about the closest- but it’s not as good as RollBackRX (no boot menu rescue) But you can do a current system live CD which essentially is like a boot system rescue- probably even better as RollBackRX snapshots do have a potential of becoming corrupted (I never had it happen, but it’s possible) But like i mentioned, creating the Live CD isn’t very intuitive- but there are some tutorials online-
One thing i learned with these programs is, anytime you try a new program or software, or test something on your computer, it’s always good to do a snapshot first- that was if something goes wrong, you can go back to immediately before installing the new software- if the new software works, just delete that snapshot- Although I confess to forgetting to do this a lot and have to use an earlier snapshot and I lose any recent changes i made to computer-
It is easier but comes with too much baggage. Namely Windows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdo15G0Jlng
If the Raspberry Pi can run Chrome, I expect it can run Office/Wine, too. Chrome is an even bigger memory hog than Office.
Yeah, what fun it was to code in SPL! The 3000 had a stack-based architecture, reminiscent of the Burroughs mainframes of the sixties and seventies.
According to the Wikipedia, versions of the 3000 are still in use. And I see Bob Green of Qedit fame is still at it.
Regarding Bob Green, it's amazing they can still keep that going since MPE has been dead for more than a decade now. They certainly have a niche. Hope it's keeping the lights on.
I have a dim recollection of Volokh from attending an HP conference or two. His paper is still online (at Alfredo Rego's site), and I think I recall reading it at the time. He was just a kid at the time.
It turns out the same Eugene Volokh is now a law professor at UCLA and runs a libertarianish blog called the Volokh Conspiracy. He is an immigrant from Ukraine. His father Vladimir was a programmer and taught young Eugene. He learned fast. More here.
There is more, but for me it is faster and more useful, due to the ease of use and customization (since i cannot do coding) etc., and i have used ever major and some minor Linux distros (but only Xubuntu on an old laptop now). But i am glad to see an alternative to MS.
Funny. I figured there couldn't be that many Eugene Volokhs in the world. Wasn't sure it was the same guy though.
Btw, I'm using your Posting Form Enhancer and FrTreeviewer Greasemonkey scripts. They rock. One thing I'd change about the posting script, is to make the <p> work like the bold and italics tag in that it would close the </p>
I managed to get it working the way I wanted myself.
added:
addButton('P', 'p', 'paragraphs', 'p');
commented:
// addButton('P', wrap(addOnOwnLine, '
'),
// 'Adds a
tag at the cursor.', 'enter');
Now, if only I could figure out how to insert a "<br>" by pressing shift-enter, it would be mostly perfect!
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