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Skriven 2006-02-09 02:58:00 av CHARLES ANGELICH (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av PAUL ROGERS
Ärende: Antivirus for Win98
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Hello Paul - 

CA>> I'm a bit fuzzy on "backup up the hardware". Can you
CA>> expand on that a little bit so that I know what you refer
CA>> to here? 

PR> OK, let's look at likely failure modes. Absent a major
PR> power glitch, the purely electronic stuff has long past the
PR> "infant mortality" phase. The probability of it's failure
PR> is small. The most likely failures are going to be bearings
PR> wearing out in the mechanical devices. Fans fail fairly
PR> regularly, but not catastrophically. Generally they'll get
PR> noisy long before they fail. She'll have time for me to get
PR> there. 

PR> The most significant point of failure, and the one that
PR> affected her two previous desktop boxes, is a HD failure.
PR> So I built this box to make that as easily recoverable as
PR> possible. The drives aren't screwed-in inside the case. I
PR> put adapters in the 5 1/4" slots with removable trays for
PR> the drives. The drive can be removed without disassembling
PR> the box. There are two of them, and the drives are
PR> interchangable identical models. 

PR> If the C: drive fails she can easily pull it out. The most
PR> difficult thing to do is switch the jumper on the backup
PR> drive. Some wouldn't need that, but these do. OTOH, these
PR> WD Caviar's have proven to be very reliable. It's now a
PR> solo but needs to become a "master", because the CDROM is
PR> the primary slave. I made sure she knew how to slide off
PR> the lid, tip out the drive without even unplugging the
PR> cables, snag the jumper with a finger nail and switch it.
PR> One of the drives even has pictures showing how it goes,
PR> and I gave her written instructions. 

PR> She can recover from a HD failure in 10 minutes. No service
PR> call necessary. Having been bitten twice by HD failures,
PR> she tends to use floppies a lot for work-in-progress. What
PR> she NEEDS is a working computer. That's what I've taken
PR> steps to provide--backing up the hardware in ways that it
PR> makes sense to do. (A second fan for the PS, for example,
PR> doesn't make sense.) 

PR>> everything that makes sense to keep a running system. 

OK, here is where we diverted into different areas. I was
referring to possible virus, worm, spyware infections and you
had mechanical failures in mind. 

CA>> "Makes sense" is a comparative term comparable to beauty
CA>> being 

PR> Of course. Reliability is like speed--see tagline. 

CA>> accomplishments while users struggle to replace commercial
CA>> (pay as you go) anti-virus software with software that
CA>> offers free updates and removing even ZoneAlarm to install
CA>> an updated version of ZoneAlarm borders on trashing your
CA>> system's OS. 

CA>> Windows + Internet = a disaster waiting to happen, and I
CA>> see no end of it in sight any time soon. 

PR> I agree completely. I wish I could persuade my clients to
PR> switch to Linux, but no chance. Linux isn't ultimately
PR> secure either--the Morris Worm attacked Unix systems. But
PR> it's MORE secure under the present circumstances. Absolute
PR> security isn't possible in the real world, but it is
PR> possible to do better than Windows. 

Seems to me that what I need is a linux machine for the
internet and a Windows machine for most everything else. Dual
booting is one possible solution but many experienced users
have stumbled attempting to do that and trashed their setups in
the process. 

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