I keep backups of most of my data, of course, but email is the most easily-searched, most easily-accessed, and most redundant system I have.and it takes zero additional thought on my part for it to behave in this way.Īdditional redundancy is also simple: If something is Really Important to me, I can send it to myself at multiple independent email servers with ridiculous ease. Man, I prefer supporting Linux boxes over Windows. And as a bonus, I successfully converted someone to Linux. I definitely appreciate how projects like Lubuntu have given us the ability to 'hold back time', as it were, for folks who simply cannot handle change. She fussed - a lot - about the fact that some of the fonts weren't identical (which would have been worse in Wn 7), and that the desktop icons were slightly larger than in XP, but otherwise things went well. In the end, though, it was a very smooth transition everything she did in XP was possible in Lubuntu, icons were in the same places, programs worked the same.

I set her up with Lubuntu, customized everything to look as close to XP as possible, and still had tons of greif to deal with. When XP support ended, this customer was panicked, and felt that she couldn't stay on XP any longer (thanks, CNN), but she is so averse to change that I knew Windows 7 would not be a good change. Change for improvement is one thing, but change for the sake of change is simply not worth the hassle. The other thing that should be taken from this is that things need to change less. And then I have my writing computer, which is a DOS machine, not connected to the Internet.''Īboslutely. 'I have a computer I browse the Internet with and I get my email on, and I do my taxes on. I know how to work the shift key.' ' I actually have two computers,' Martin continued. If I wanted a capital, I would have typed a capital.

I hate some of these modern systems where you type a lower case letter and it becomes a capital letter. 'It does everything I want a word processing program to do, and it doesn't do anything else. But the truth is that Martin works on an outdated DOS machine using '80s word processor WordStar 4.0, as he revealed during an interview on Conan.

Martin writing his epic fantasy novels, they probably picture the author working on a futuristic desktop (or possibly carving his words onto massive stones like the Ten Commandments). Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: 'Ryan Reed reports that when most Game of Thrones fans imagine George R.R.

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