[GreenKeys] OT: Microsoft to support Windows XP for an additional year...

[tony j. podrasky]

Hey DR et al;

Sounds reasonable to me.

AFA the people who are preaching "cloud computing" (having all
your personal records stored on some site instead of on your
personal computer) well, - good luck with that.

I've retired after some 30 years in the computer field - and I've
seen enough RAIDs and 5 9's (uptime of 99.999%) lose data that
you'll "never fool me with the golden idol".

Oh, - it's not always the hardware. Sometimes it's that lightning bolt
that hit the power transformer and sent a zillion volts into the
computer room.

And let's not forget the 3rd-party customer rep that's making
minimum wage [would YOU want someone making that kind of salary working
on YOUR livelyhood?]

And, of course, the hackers that hack their way into the database and
compromise your security.

With the price of PCs - either brand new or someone's no-longer-needed one,
you can have two in your house:

I have a "don't-care-what-happens-to-it" computer that sits on the internet.
I don't care if it gets hacked: I can reimage it in about an hour. I also
have my "important-data" computer which is isolated from all the others.
I don't have to worry about it getting contaminated.

UE,
W6ESE - tony
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DR HOUSE wrote:

> Most PC's will be used for large projects such as publishing, editing  
> video's, storing personal data... taxes, spreadsheets, etc.

-- 
Tony J. Podrasky | On two occasions I have been asked [by members of
                  | Parliament!], "Pray, Mr. Babbage - if you put into the
                  | machine WRONG FIGURES, will the RIGHT ANSWERS come out?"
                  | I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion
                  | of ideas that could provoke such a question.
                  | Charles Babbage - inventor of the analog engine (1st CPU)