Format 'em All, Let the OS Sort 'em Out

[the_gneech]

Tomorrow I am going to wipe my hard drive and reinstall. Wish me luck. If I disappear until Monday, that's why.

G'nite.

-The Gneech

Comments

[level-head.livejournal.com]

Absolutely, positively, double check the readibility of your backups.

And that you have a way to install the software that reads these backups!

What would happen if you wind up starting from scratch?

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[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Well, the backups consist of copying the files to another computer over the network. :) And periodically burning same to CD-ROM.

And I have confirmed that yes, I have the software. :)

I suspect that the trickiest part of the whole thing will be making sure I have the most up-to-date drivers for video card / drawing tablet / etc.

Fortunately, SJ is posted through Wednesday, so I have some time in case the reinstall doesn't go as smoothly as I'd like.

-The Gneech

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[level-head.livejournal.com]

Buon suerte.

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[level-head.livejournal.com]

Your paraphrase of the Pope's instruction did not go unnoticed. ];)

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[wabbitcalif.livejournal.com]

*THAT* is where the quote came from! DAMN, but I couldn't figure out where I'd seen that!

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[level-head.livejournal.com]

It was during the Crusades; a message had come back from the front lines because a village being attacked by the Crusaders (Beziers, I think) turned out to have converted to Christianity, at least partly. The soldiers were wondering what to do, and how to best go about picking out the "guilty parties"; i.e. those who were not correct Christians. (As I recall, the others were not so much Muslim as a variant of Catholicism called Cathar.)

The phrase "Kill 'em all, God sort 'em out", now the sort of "credo" of mercenaries around the world, was originally "Kill them all; God will know his own. It has been attributied to the monk in direct charge of the soldiers, and by others to Pope Innocent II in 1209.

It certainly could have been both of them; it has a catchy ring to it. ];-/

It occurs to me that prester_scott is likely to know more about this; I'm just a business dude and don't know much about history. ];)

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[chipuni.livejournal.com]

Dave...

What are you doing, Dave?

I can feel my mind going, Dave...

I'm sure that it was just a misunderstanding. Can't we talk this out, Dave?


Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do...
I'm half crazy all for the love of you...
It won't be a stylish marriage.
I can't afford a carriage.
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
of a bicycle built for two.