Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:27:30 -0500, HK wrote:

I don't know how you do that. It takes me that long just to get to
the right service pack level on the OS, and then I need to reinstall
all of my application software and bring it back to the right
maintenance level.


It's not as if you had anything to do.

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And your point is ?



Well, W'hine, if you had something to do, the few hours it takes to
rebuild a hard drive from scratch might interfere with some worthwhile
activity. But you don't really have any.

Get yourself a Windows Home Server from HP. You can back up and restore
your entire machine with virtually no operator input, and with the new
release, you can even backup your backups to removable hard drives and
store them off site. You can do a lot more with the WHS, too, which
makes it more interesting than simply using decent backup software to
backup your drives and reinstall them with a CD restore disk.

But, then, what would you do with the time freed up? Help run a soup
kitchen? Distribute clothing to the poor? Pay someone's electric bill?

Nah.