Comments on: Ubuntu disappointment and data disasters

By: Toast Titanium 7.0 Mac

Toast Titanium 7.0 Mac — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:41:54 +0000

Toast Titanium 7.0 Mac…

An interesting post by a bloger made me……

By: irk

irk — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:33:36 +0000

I don’t know what card you were using but from what I am gathering half of them don’t work on Mac either. A wise person researches their new hardware purchases for compatibility anyway right??? right???
Worked on the 4 3g cards I tried with only a click to use the connection -no funky network mangers ilke windows

By: mdz

mdz — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:14:40 +0000

For such a sensational headline, you didn’t seem to find very much wrong with Ubuntu 8.10. The fact that it only worked with one of your 3G dongles is useful feedback, and if you’re interested in seeing them work, visit https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NetworkManager/Hardware/3G for some starting points.

The fact that your flash drive died seems to have nothing whatsoever to do with Ubuntu, though the title could be read as implying that it did.

By: Dante

Dante — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:30:17 +0000

Learn to proofread your writing. You wrote:

“Great stuff, but country to popular opinion, one out of three is actually bad.”

I believe you wanted to say “contrary” instead of “country.” Also, backing up your important files is just common sense. Don’t bash Ubuntu just because of your own stupidity or laziness. But please do apply for the position of writing code for Vista. If you do as good a job at that as you do writing these articles- you will help the Ubuntu Linux cause.

By: Brett Worth

Brett Worth — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:36:06 +0000

Ha ha ha!! Three years!! What an idiot!!

By: Garreth

Garreth — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:26:46 +0000

“Flash memory only has a certain number of writes. ”
True.
That means on a flash memory device you can only access it 20,000 times.
False

http://forums.ilounge.com/archive/index.php/t-80698.html

By: FACORAT Fabrice

FACORAT Fabrice — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:02:13 +0000

I forgot :
here are the doc for references : http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/KB/Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring_documentation

By: FACORAT Fabrice

FACORAT Fabrice — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:01:12 +0000

Mandriva network applet configurator is able top configure 3G connections if the hardware is supported by the Linux kernel. You have a list of provider, but you can configure your own one, and it will remember the PIN code.
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.0_Tour#Improvements_to_network_tools

you may want to give it a try to see if it can work with your setup.

There’s also draksnapshot that allow to take snapshots of your files and backup them in a flash or USB drive.

By: deadcabbit

deadcabbit — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:52:44 +0000

Live Mesh will not cure common stupidity. Next time instead of writing a blogpost (couple of minutes), initiate a backup (couple of minutes). Good bye.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:50:05 +0000

not to be mean, but it was your own fault for not backing up your data.

Especially on a portable flash drive. Flash memory only has a certain number of writes. Lets say 20,000 for an example. That means on a flash memory device you can only access it 20,000 times. After that it’s toast. All flash memory will eventually fail…