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Originally Posted by Skybird
When being able to chose between making notes in a paper notebook, or on a digital device, i always choose the paper thing. Always: its still faster, usually - and much more important: its more reliable. More trustworthy.
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But what if the batteries go flat in your paper thingie?
Switching to Thunderbird will fix all the flashy e-mail stuff. Wonder why you'd get a MIDI message on Ask Woody? I'll bet it was triggered by something else entirely.
Cell phones are the worst pushers of the blinking lights, funny sounds, eye candy cancer. Takes major amounts of time to shut all that down.
And with the excessive amounts of time it takes to get hundreds of settings in arcane and hard to find places set to your liking and the inability to save all these settings in one place, you need a backup system that saves disk images of your boot drive. That way you restore the image to a new drive and boot it. It is as if nothing had ever happened and you merely continue with all settings, preferences, bookmarks, favorites, display schemes, sound schemes and everything about your computer absolutely unchanged. You don't have to spend all that time restoring the settings you remember and months afterwards fixing the others as they occur.
System backup by disk image is the only method that makes any sense at all! But almost nobody does such a thing.