Using a Howitzer to swat a fly

["Wade Maxfield" <wmaxfield@gmail.com>]

>From: Fargo Holiday <fargo@rpgportland.com> wrote

><snip>
>I admit my solution isn't easy, but keeping images of an entire
>partition to switch between just to switch versions of a program strikes
>me as sort of like using a howitzer on a housefly. Effective, yes, but
>perhaps just a tad overkill for the task.
<snip>

  If you use Windows, aka Bill's "I'm a PC" Howitzer, anything that keeps
the wheels under the PC is acceptable. <grin>

  I've reinstalled windows countless times to keep the wheels on the
machine.

  My favorite howitzer is now vmware fusion or workstation 6.x.  It saved me
about 2 days of configuration time when my machine went belly up (hard drive
failure).  I put down a new machine, copied the virtual machine onto my hd
and was back in business in about 15 minutes.  I gladly put up with a
slightly slower machine for that benefit.

  I've tried BB guns, dart guns, even pistols, but the PC viruses were not
even mildly bothered.

wade
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