Sharing Thunderbird Mails Between Linux and Windows

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Wed Mar 29 17:15:03 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 29 March 2006 17:41, James Wilkinson wrote:
> > I've never trusted a vfat partition since.
>
> You know, it would be a lot more logical not to trust CPU fans...
>
The fact remains that I lost nothing from the ext3 partitions.

> Modern CPUs are provided with fans for a reason. Some CPUs are better
> than others at halting the system when the fan fails -- it sounds like
> you experienced quite a bit of collateral damage.
>
Actually, I think it's truer to say that some motherboards are better at 
halting the system when a fan fails.  If it had been the only system in the 
room I might have saved it by manual intervention, but I mis-heard the source 
and hit the wrong shutdown button.

> In particular, you can't trust a CPU to work as designed in such cases,
> and any writes to disk are dodgy.
>
> Actually, come to think of it, not trusting computers or *any*
> filesystems would also be a logical conclusion.
>
> At least, not trusting them enough that you run regular backups.
>
I'm sure you have met Murphy and his cousid Sod ;-)  Almost everything was 
backed up, but the newest set of holiday photos wasn't.

Anne
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