Nobody Cares about Tech Support

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Curses, you pointed out my inconsistency , peg as in pegboard just sounds better.

Is that what they call pegging?

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

By that reasoning jpg should be pronounced jfeg for the p in photographic.

Like I said.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Is that what they call pegging?

Pronounced "gegging."

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Pronounced "gegging."

Which can lead to excessive compression artifacts if you are not careful with the settings.

 

[Free]

Pronounced "gegging."

 

[Casey Pelous]

Did I just go through some sort of time warp/wormhole/flux capacitor type of situation or something?

I just got an email from Humble Bundle pimping CorelDRAW 2024.

Corel is still a thing? WTF? Are they going to include a copy of WordStar?

 

[Casey Pelous]

Which can lead to excessive compression artifacts if you are not careful with the settings.

I can only imagine.

So far as you know.

 

[Khamon]

Did I just go through some sort of time warp/wormhole/flux capacitor type of situation or something?

I just got an email from Humble Bundle pimping CorelDRAW 2024.

Corel is still a thing? WTF? Are they going to include a copy of WordStar?

and VP Planner and oh and Harvard Graphics to add charts to your Hypercard stacks

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Harvard Graphics

OMG!

Right around 2000 my family moved into a house that had been previously owned by a hoarder I think, because it was FULL of stuff. Not like nasty garbage, just stuff, of every imaginable kind. So we spent like a solid week just clearing it out. Anyways, I remember going up into the attic and finding boxes of boxes of old software and it was stuff like Harvard Graphics, and StarOffice, and freaking Print Shop Deluxe, lol. From back when software came in like hard-cardboard jacketed boxes and had user manuals that were just giant heavy slabs of paper, like dictionaries. And these old just as thick spiral-bound BASIC programming books.

Literally a kid back then so I didn't appreciate any of it but man do I wish I had kept some of that stuff just for the heck of it.

 

[Free]

I just got an email from Humble Bundle pimping CorelDRAW 2024.

I wish I kept the copy of CorelDraw (don't recall the version #) I got with my first PC. It had a pretty decent font creation tool that I played around with a lot. It started off my long love for fonts.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I wish I kept the copy of CorelDraw (don't recall the version #) I got with my first PC. It had a pretty decent font creation tool that I played around with a lot. It started off my long love for fonts.

You did this, didn’t you. GitHub - weiweihuanghuang/Times-New-Bastard: It's Times New Roman but every seventh letter is jarringly sans serif

 

[Free]

You did this, didn’t you. GitHub - weiweihuanghuang/Times-New-Bastard: It's Times New Roman but every seventh letter is jarringly sans serif

I wIsH! (And I would have called it Times New Bitch.)

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Corel is still a thing? WTF? Are they going to include a copy of WordStar?

Apparently, yes. And it would be a copy of WordPerfect! WordStar was MicroPro.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

You did this, didn’t you. GitHub - weiweihuanghuang/Times-New-Bastard: It's Times New Roman but every seventh letter is jarringly sans serif

"text-rendering: optimizeLegibility"

Legibility

YOU KEEP USING THAT WORD, I DO NOT THINK IT MEANS WHAT YOU THINK IT MEANS.

 

[Casey Pelous]

For some time I have had a nagging thought that I really MUST upgrade my backup plan. By upgrade, I mean "actually HAVE a useful backup."

My desktop, Bertha, has three hard drives, C:, D:, and E:, as one might rationally expect.

Again, as one would expect, C:, an SSD, holds the operating system (Win10 because I can't upgrade to Win11 for some inscrutable reason having to do with Secure Boot. If I try to enable Secure Boot in my BIOS, it barfs.) It also holds any drivers and programs that refused to let me install to the D: drive.

D: has work product and programs that did allow me to install them there (saving space on the OS's drive.) E: has my music library and various ebooks and videos. Lest you think I am a complete idiot, the work product is all backed up to a smaller external drive. My "backup software" consists of me dragging and dropping files to the smaller external drive on a schedule of "whenever I get worried enough to do it."

C: drive is nominally 500 Gb, D is 2Tb, E: is 1Tb. Of course, none of them is actually that big because marketing departments are overpaid, lying, thieving scoundrels who make the Somali pirates look like Campfire Girls. But, let's not dwell on that right now.

This morning, I got a 4Tb external drive. Ideally, I'd like some backup software that will allow me to recover very quickly from any of the hard drives dying, which I think means I need to clone the C: and D: drives to the external drive. Is this possible?

Given my possibly unrealistic demands, what backup software do I want? Obviously, freeware if it will do the job. Otherwise, I'd want something reasonably priced with a perpetual license; the subscription model is bad and wrong and should be gently but firmly killed with fire.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Microsoft discontinued SyncToy but you can still get Version 2.1 on MajorGeek. I use it to sync my documents and media folders on start-up and shutdown to folders on a second drive. First run takes a while but after that it only has to look at changes to the folders. Not a true backup, as it will copy corrupt files, but good in case one drive fails.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I wish there was a Windows equivalent to Time Machine.

 

[Govi]

I use Casper (from Future Systems) automatically to clone my entire c: SSD drive to an internal spinning HD several times a week and then once I week, I connect an external spinning drive to do the same for c: on the external drive. Caspar does cost $59.95, but once set up, it's convenient and thorough. It also is smart about it; it just looks for the differences and removes, adds, or replaces only those files necessary to keep it a complete clone of c:

 

[Casey Pelous]

I use Casper (from Future Systems) automatically to clone my entire c: SSD drive to an internal spinning HD several times a week and then once I week, I connect an external spinning drive to do the same for c: on the external drive. Caspar does cost $59.95, but once set up, it's convenient and thorough. It also is smart about it; it just looks for the differences and removes, adds, or replaces only those files necessary to keep it a complete clone of c:

Thanks! Will it clone D: and E: to the same external drive? Reading their site, it sounds like it will only handle the system drive.

 

[Govi]

Thanks! Will it clone D: and E: to the same external drive? Reading their site, it sounds like it will only handle the system drive.

On this system, (assembled in 2020 and Win11) I have only ever cloned C: to another drive. However, on my previous system (assembled in 2012 and Win7), I have cloned D: to C:. I used to change D: to my main system drive in the BIOS to test whether it was a true clone; the test was successful: it booted on D: properly with all my stuff. Then, after using D: as boot drive for a few days, I'd clone D: to C:, switch in BIOS and then boot to C: It is a slick system, though I haven't performed the same test on this system, it should work. But I won't know until I've tested it.