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Simple File Sharing

The first backup with BackupPC has finished - faster than I expected. When I checked the backup set, I saw, that the /Windows and /Documents and Settings directories didn’t get backed up…. Hmm - looking at their properties, I found that there were not shareable because “the operating system needs them”… What? A bit of searching on the mailinglist of BackupPC found someone with a similar problem and with the solution: There’s a “simple sharing” option in Windows XP - a dumbed down version so to speak. Switching it off is described in the MS Knowledgebase. ...

Jens-Christian Fischer
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Pragmatic Books

I have enjoyed the The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master and the Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide books by Dave and Andy Now they have written two new pragmatic books with a third on the way: The Pragmatic Starter Kit with books on CVS and JUnit already available. I’ll be buying them after I finish this entry… (PDF or printed version? hmm - PDF is faster satisfaction) (oh, and here are the Amazon.de links for the “real” books): ...

Jens-Christian Fischer