Windows 7 and filePro 5.6 installation

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On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:28:59PM -0500, Nancy Palmquist, the prominent pundit,
witicized:
> Mine supports it beautifully.
> 
> Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz
> 64-bit
> With Windows 7 Ultimate.

Well, I'm only guessing that VTx is what's needed, based on Ken's
description.  I've tried turning VTx on in VirtualBox, and vbox complains
that my system doesn't support Intel VTx.  Based on Intel's site, my -chip-
supports VTx, as does yours.  Looks like I either need to enable VTx in the
BIOS, or update my BIOS because the feature was added later.

> I am finding it stable and fast.  I like it.  I am even finding the 
> changes to Windows rather better in many cases than I have seen in other 
> upgrades.  Still have to get a backup solution, but I keep getting more 
> of the functions added each day, as I have time.

Your chip will run warmer than mine.  The 6750 is 65nm, the 8400 is 45nm.
The smaller the lithography and die size, the cooler the chip.  Make sure
you keep your cooling adequate.  :)

The smaller die size you can get in anything (CPU, GPU, etc.), the cooler
those chips run.  My integrator (specifically talking about Intel) said
that they'll release a chip with great performance boosts, and then eleven
months later they'll realease a version with fairly modest performance
gains, but with a smaller die size, which will run cooler.

> I have had lousy luck with many of the backup software for WindowsXP.  I 
> will have to see what is supported by Windows7 for a reliable backup method.

I have yet to find anything adequate.  I -had- a USB cage with two 500GB
drives, and I think the firmware on it flaked out, because every time we
plug it into a system (desktop, laptop, doesn't matter), it says it was
just unsafely ejected and refuses to be used.  I finally gave up.

The problem is, I need to back up just shy of 2TB, and there's not really
anything really affordable that you'd want to put somewhere that will
handle that volume of data.  Not last time I looked, anyway.  Ideally what
-I- want is an ethernet-based disk array, -not- USB.  The software is
really a trivial matter.  One could get Unison (a really souped up rsync)
for Windows and use that, problem solved as far as raw files.  If you
wanted something that'll do a full restore...that'd require something more
Windows-centric, of course.  Ideally, I personally want the ability to use
a 2TB+ ethernet-based storage device with software that will let you backup
and restore multiple systems at once.

> Acronis would not work on my old machine.  I tried to work with their 
> tech support but after a month, I gave up and uninstalled it.  I think 
> some months later I had a hard drive issue, which I think was what keep 
> Acronis from working.  Although the error message was not clear.

Acronis messed up Windows 2000 badly enough that I gave up on it after
about two days.  I've never been impressed with it.

> Retrospect was nice because it let me make a duplicate of a drive.  I 
> like this format, because I can roll around and grab things from an 
> older version.  But it would stop running for no reason, sometimes.  I 
> found that a bit of an issue.  I was also very confused by way it kept 
> the real backups, in volumes and stuff.  Pretty proprietary, if you need 
> the stuff and the new computer does not run retrospect.  That always 
> worried me.  I want something less proprietary, I think.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Depends how much data you're talking about.  I keep distributed backups via
rsync of my Really Important Files[tm] (ie., all my development code, email
backups, etc.) around the net.  The really important stuff that I can't
afford to lose is really probably under 50MB.  The real annoyance would be
blowing a drive and losing all my video, music, game installations, etc.
You know--the stuff computers are REALLY for.  :)

I hear good things about Carbonite for limited offsite backups of the really
important stuff, but you wouldn't want to use it for, say, > 2GB, depending
on your broadband throughput.  But...I'm not a fan of cloud storage, even
if it's encrypted.

It really depends on what your backup needs and philosophies are.

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