[FRIAM] Setting up a new PC

Sat Nov 9 19:10:57 EST 2019

@Nicholas Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
  It is my observation that Sanity is relative. One must first ponder how
sane there relatives are first. Then comes a scale of Un-Sanity

Doc From Back To The Future With--------Mad Scientists from
Cartoon-----------------Demon Sultan A'zyth-----Sith
Lords------------------------------------------Korn--------Nuffle: Lord of
the Dice and
RNG-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Nurgle-----------------Drunken
Ork
Partied----------------------------------------------------------------TheDude
that made
B-TreeFS-------------------------------------------------------------------The
Other Dude that Made Cinnamon Flavored Egg nog:Tied with the dude that made
ZFS, deb dist updates and  possible the dude that created SNAPs and Tripple
Dunker Donuts----------------->(is even mor Un-Sanity possible in this
dimension?)---Nurgle

I think the personS you might be implying are some where between Nuffle,
and some skipped right to Creater of ZFS levels of bonkers, it's good
gonkers (for now...) but sooner or latter we'll go flying into
understanding Qbits multiple forms of Zero, Alephs and parrellel universes
is a Good Thing and then smack right into  the Cult of the Damned levels.
Not quite there yet. and so far everyone is acting they could or should and
that's a good thing (I hope) ...but ....

(Nick May need to have someone tell him a bit about warhammer and cuthulu
lore for rifftastic scale of bonkersness as humor to work as humor)

There is some...pretty good news so far there Nancy (thus far) is able to
drum her proverbial fingers to say: seriusly? you did what? and a utter
lack of?, so the kids don't get to home early for Vakation...

On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 1:49 PM Russell Standish <lists at hpcoders.com.au>
wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 11:45:14PM -0700, Nick Thompson wrote:
> > Hi, russ, again,
> >
> > I just discovered that my new computer comes up in my directory for my
> old one.  So.... I guess I COULD just transfer EVERYTHING on my old
> computer onto my new computer.
> >
> > But surely this is a sheep-dip moment, and I should transfer only data,
> emails, and other stuff in the backup.
>
> You should only transfer that stuff. I have home areas (mounted under
> /home) that is backed up, scratch areas that is not backed up, and
> everything else just contains system software and applications.
>
> When commissioning a new machine, I could just copy the home areas,
> but usually also copy the scratch areas too, as this often contains
> most recently worked on stuff that I don't care particularly if they
> disappear (eg github projects), but save time and effort finding and
> downloading. I don't copy system stuff, but install everything as a I
> need it, mostly from the distro's repo, when I need it. This means
> that applications I used once and never used again don't get installed
> again.
>
> But this is a Linux computer, for Windows, it is a virtual machine,
> and I back up the entire machine, if only because it takes several
> days to set up a Windows machine. But I don't have any personally
> interesting stuff on the Windows machine, so I can recover in the
> event of it being hosed or virused anyway - the backup is just to save
> time.
>
> Cheers
>
> >
> > Save me from myself.
> >
> > Nick
> >
> > Nicholas S. Thompson
> > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
> > Clark University
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Russell
> Standish
> > Sent: Friday, November 08, 2019 2:33 PM
> > To: friam <friam at redfish.com>
> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Setting up a new PC
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 01:20:31PM -0700, Nick Thompson wrote:
> > > Kindly FRIAMers,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Do you have any advice to give, or a website to suggest, that will
> > > help me decide how to set up the computer I just bought.  I back up
> > > the old computer to a hard drive every night, and I had always thought
> > > to transfer the data to the new one by restoring the backup file to
> > > the new computer. But I assume there is a LOT of crap in there I don’t
> > > want.  SOMEBODY must have thought about this issue and written
> something avuncular for people like me.
> >
> > I always restore from backup, or from the original drive if it is still
> working.  Getting rid of crap is a different task, requiring dedication and
> thought about what you do or don't need. I usually do that either when
> slightly bored, or when my disk is full and I'm desparate for space.
> >
> > Cheers
> > --
> >
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