This will drop out of the mainstream media’s consciousness faster than a liberal talk radio host with 14 Ketel One bloody marys under her belt.
From reliefweb:
BAGHDAD, 21 October 2007 (IRIN) – Iraqis are breathing a sigh of relief as violence i…

I put Windows XP Pro with MS Office Pro on all the machines rather than touch em with Vista.

I don’t have any machines running Vista here at all for a lot of reasons to complex to go in to in a short post.

Back to your DVD issue. Quite frankly with the cost of the blank DVD plus your time spent doing the copy you end up spending more total than getting the second copy.

Now if you were doing a hundred or so that would shift.

Vista should handle home grown video you make but it holds an iron hand to protected stuff.

Almost as bad as Ipods in that respect.

A lot of people today are getting bit with those Hi Def products they bought early in the cycle because they don’t support the end to end protection that the standards now require.

There are some hack programs out in the wild that will do the deed but most take fairly good computer skills to run them.

I find it’s not worth the trouble and just buy an extra copy for the friend as a gift to save the hassle.

Here’s a chart comparing casualty rates between the GWOT, Vietnam, and WWII….

A great article I’d like to pass on.:

http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/stock/051019

Time to get outta here. Take Care.

Sorry about your computer problems but it illustrates how most people don’t realize until it dies just how much they have tied up on the piece of electronics on their desk.

Sorry you were unable to add a rw cd at least to the old warhorse to do backups that would help you recover the data.

Even RW DVD double layers are coming down in price.

Specific small files like address books and such could have even been backed up to a floppy or two.

Extensive backup can be messy if you don’t do it right. Around here for all the computers I have it has been organized to be fully automated to ease the task.

The only manual portion left is to change out blank RW DVD’s as necessary and then transfer them to the online archive system I have here.

The backup server has 6 RW DVD’s so up to six computers on the network can be backing up at the same time for full backups or up to 20 or so if incremental backups are being done.

Then the DVD’s are physically move to a 300 DVD capacity jukebox system for access to the archives as needed. After the first of the year I will be adding in another DVD archive machine and they are telling me they may have their 600 DVD version available by then with full Blue Ray /HD DVD support on that one.

Yeah, just saw that too! Thanks for the heads up.

AJStrata

I wouldn’t exactly say they are in denial. What I believe they are hoping for is that the numbers of the past couple of months are a “fluke”. So they are going to go absolutely quiet on the issue, or at least continue to repeat the cliches of past reporting (describing Ramadi and Baquba as “restive” for example)

So what they are doing is going very quiet in the hopes that more of our troops and more Iraqis start dying again soon. That is basically the bottom line for those Orwellian criminals we call Democrats in Congress. While they make speeches about troops dying for the President’s amusement, it is really the Democrats who want to see the carnage increase to serve their political purposes. Sick.

You got quoted by the Weekly Standard! They were talking about what Michael Yon said, and they quoted your line about the electronic pamphleteers, and provided a link to this post.

If you use the link above to go to Amazon we do get a return on all your purchases. We get a bit more if you select something from our bookshelf. There is no cost to you at all (same price no matter what).

It is an easy way to support the site by directing some of Amazon’s profits our direction.

Cheers, AJStrata