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Are you users of Windows ? How are you doing on your backups ? Have you had the machine halt in the middle of backups by any chance ? Have you lost any data ? Have things disappeared into strange parts of your disk ? And have you, have you had to reinstall the operating system and loose track of all your settings ? Or are you a user of the Macintosh ? Once so simple and unreliable. Now rock solid and uncomprehensible ! So the beginning user puts something on the desktop, "ok, now I file it inside, op", and gets the full unix directory. Right How about Linux? Oh that's great! We have this wonderful command line interface or we have the, the gnome thing with really nice incomprehensible widgets that were designed as a dumbdown of the command line interface as distinct from. ...clarity