Re: can I use Apple II with a vga/dvi monitor? how to get software?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <00nli.108297$1i1.40973@pd7urf3no>,
The Wizard of Oz  <wizard@emeraldcity.gov> wrote:

> Anecdotally, I've had Microsoft Word (Office) crash and corrupt all
> the hard drives in a system (twice - losing a months worth of work
> in the process).

Well, I suppose you got what you deserved, because when this happened,
you had committed two cardinal "sins":

1. When that MS-Word crashed and did all that damage to your stuff,
you were logged on to an account with administrator's right.  If you
instead had been logged on to an account with more limited user's
access rights, that could never have happened.  Only the folders to
which you had write privileges could have been damaged by that
fialing MS-Word, but never the entire hard disks.

2. You didn't back up your stuff properly - so you lost a months (sic!)
worth of work instead of merely a few hours worth of work.

I hope you leant from your mistakes so this won't happen to you again.
Hardware and software can always fail - so back up your stuff if you
don't want to lose it!  And just like Linux user's aren't logged on
as 'root' all the time, and Mac OS-X users usually are logged on to
accounts with limited access rights, so should Windows users avoid
logging on to an account with administrative rights for their daily
work.  The 'Administrator' account should be used only sometimes,
when you really have to, and never when reading your mail ur surfing
the web - or when running applications like MS-Word, which can crash
really badly....



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