On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:38:11PM +0000, baza wrote: > On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 14:30 +0000, alan c wrote: > > London School of Puppetry wrote: > > > Hi Jonathan, I agree but I think the problem is wider than just us isn't > > > it....I'm concerned that non-groupy types....like most of the ordinary > > > world should be able to access Ubuntu and other OSS > > > and know that there is exactly the same expert support available as > > > there is for Windows etc. Caroline > > > > > I give phone support (free) if asked, for local contacts. I am not > > any expert! > > > > When I began with linux a few years ago, I was experienced with online > > use getting help, but found my local LUG of limited value for a number > > of reasons. I like the idea of very local help. Experience to date > > suggests that it is only the very initial questions that need answers, > > reassurance included. > > The best advice anyone can give, IMHO, is to burn your 'home' directory > to CD or DVD every month, that way if you system does the big firework > you can reinstall and keep (most) of you data. >
Heh, that might not be quite so easy for many people. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ du -hs . 100G Maybe time to get one of those new fangled HD-DVD or BD burners ;) Alternatively you could use a nice backup tool such as SBackup [0] or HuBackup [1] to selectively backup the stuff that is important like documents, photos and email, skipping the less important stuff (and bulky stuff) like games (which can be re-installed) or (in my case) qemu/virtualbox virtual machine images:- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/vm$ du -hs . 53G Cheers, Al. [0] http://sbackup.sourceforge.net/ScreenShots [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HomeUserBackup -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
