on 8/6/04 3:36 PM, b at syrflip at verizon.net wrote: > Glenn L. Austin paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly: > >> Unfortunately, I >> also have to work on Windows, where I just lost an entire drive's contents >> (including the partition table, interestingly enough!) due to a bug in the >> well-known *backup* program I've been using successfully for many years. > > That's lousy news. I have to ask, though, which is more likely, A > 'bug' surfaced in the backup utility, after being dormant for years, > or maybe an update, or security patch, in the OS did the nasty? Probably a combination of all of those. > Windows proprietary bloat reached a software (too many lines of > bloated code) critical mass a while ago, wherein every 'fix' > automatically spawns multiple vulnerabilities. Probably some of that as well. -- Glenn L. Austin <>< Computer Wizard and Race Car Driver <glenn at austin-home.com> <http://www.austin-home.com/glenn/>