D 1.076 and 2.061 release

[Dmitry Olshansky]

1/2/2013 11:24 PM, Walter Bright пишет:
> On 1/2/2013 11:09 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
>> On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 10:51 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
>> […]
>>> I've been avoiding upgrading Ubuntu, because the last time I did that
>>> the
>>> installer trashed everything. Lost a day on that one.
>>
>> Just because it happened once doesn't mean it will always happen.
>>
>> Until I abandoned all use of Ubuntu, I had never had an upgrade crash
>> that didn't correct itself on appropriate rerun. You are the only person
>> I know that had a total trashing due to installer fail.
>>
>> Reinstalling from scratch does not take a whole day. 2 hours maybe.
>
> It does when you don't remember what goes in the host file, what you had
> installed, redoing all the ssh keys, etc. It also deleted all my virtual
> boxes, I never did figure out how to get them working again. I simply
> gave up on virtual boxes as more trouble than they're worth.
>

While I've found them to be quite easy to migrate and use. If virtual 
hard disk can be found/recovered you don't need the settings and other 
crap as these are re-created in matter of minutes. There are even 
pre-constructed images of various OS+software stack to be found on the web.

> P.S. I like calendar programs, but on Windows and Ubuntu, upgrading the
> OS inevitably deletes the calendar database. None of those frackin'
> calendar programs ever deign to tell me where they store their frackin'
> database, so I can back it up. I really, really don't understand mail
> and calendar programs that make it difficult to back up the data. I quit
> using Outlook Express because it stored the mail database in a hidden
> directory. WTF? Thunderbird is better, but not much.

On latest Windows OS-es almost everything is in AppData\Roaming + 
AppData\Roaming in \Users directory. Just copying them over and 
reinstalling the apps seems to work (I only tried Thunderbird and couple 
of others though).

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Dmitry Olshansky