<![CDATA[ConceptDraw MINDMAP Personal comments:]]> https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/ en Sat, 26 May 2007 18:28:08 +0000 hourly 1 FeedWriter <![CDATA[By: bumdek]]> https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#comment-8658 Sat, 26 May 2007 14:28:08 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#comment-8658 <![CDATA[By: Flyingbird]]> https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#comment-8657 Fri, 18 May 2007 01:01:35 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#comment-8657 <![CDATA[By: YawningDog]]> https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#comment-8656 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:50:19 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#comment-8656 <![CDATA[By: America Wins]]> https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#comment-8655 Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:30:39 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#comment-8655 <![CDATA[By: BillW50]]> https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#comment-8654 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:56:04 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#comment-8654 <![CDATA[By: Keilaron]]> https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#comment-8653 Comment was deleted for using a personal insult against another commenter.]]> Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:42:52 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#comment-8653 <![CDATA[By: AnnoLiberatis]]> https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#comment-8652 Comment was deleted for using a personal insult against another commenter.]]> Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:24:41 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#comment-8652 <![CDATA[By: BillW50]]> https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#comment-8651 Comment was deleted for using a personal insult against another commenter.]]> Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:37:35 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#comment-8651 <![CDATA[By: BillW50]]> https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#comment-8650 Part of this comment was deleted for using a personal insult against another commenter.
... There’s nothing stopping you from starting a website consisting of your exhaustive 6-hour reviews of software offered here.
Why? That is what this comment section is for. Why take it elsewhere?
Contrary to your latest false assertion, BladedThoth frequently praises software offered on GOTD. The fact he isn’t a blatant shill such as yourself is to his credit.
Really? I only recall only one in the last week. Have you documented your claims? If so, can we see them? Or are we supposed to just take your word for it?
When people point out certain GOTD offerings are for older versions with known bugs, you attack them and claim older versions are the best.
No they are sometimes the best. Not always. You smart people sure have strange logic, I must say. As you people ignore many problems in the past with newer versions. Like the following examples: MS Bob Windows ME Windows XP SP2 (upgrading caused problems with many) IE7 (also caused problems with many) Vista, etc. There are some whom like me don't trust v1 of anything very much. I suppose all of you smart people have already upgraded to Vista. Not me though. I waited till 2006 just to upgrade to Windows XP SP2 from Windows 2000. And I don't see me running Vista until around 2010 or 2011. When they had enough time to work out most of the bugs and the hardware by then should be able to run it just fine. But you smart people can do whatever you want too, don't let dummies like me make you change your mind. And you completely glossed over about the whiners that were complaining that they didn't get Aston 1.9.3x, but the 7 month older 1.9.2. And when I mentioned that this 1.9.2 might be a good thing. You know-it-alls attacked me for even thinking this. Yet later I learned, that many in the Aston forum also thought 1.9.2 was also the best stable version. And that Aston themselves had made 1.9.2 available once again for those that wanted to go back. Could you imagine what would have happened if the whiners here got there way and ended up with the buggier 1.9.3x version of Aston?
When GOTD offers the “latest, greatest version,” you’re strangely silent. What’s up with that? Why aren’t you complaining about not receiving an older version replete with bugs? Yet you accuse other people of not being consistent.
I am just a dummy who doesn't believe things are just black and white. Sometimes older versions are better and sometimes newer versions are better. Maybe to you smart people feel this spells inconsistent. But for us dummies, it makes a lot of sense.
You claim to be an electrical engineer, former rocket scientist, and computer expert yet you posted absurd, inaccurate statements regarding imaging backup software. Now, you allege your information came from experiences several years ago (without citing any specific programs).
for starters, I said from the very beginning that people believing that rocket scientists are very smart, is highly overrated. But why should you listen to a dummy like me? And secondly, I am sorry I didn't explain my past experiences with backup software. I will take the time now to explain my experiences with them. As I didn't really have the time before. Back in the DOS and CP/M days, it was really simple. PIP/Copy was all you needed to make backups. Later it become more complicated. As starting with Windows 95, you couldn't very easy and drop back to DOS to use copy to make backups anymore. So I bought one of those QIC tape backup. What a disaster! Slow and very time consuming. Worse it crashed a lot and it had taken all day and you had to keep changing tapes. But everything was backed up right? WRONG! The tapes had a nasty habit of stretching and recovery became a game of chance. Sometimes it worked, sometimes you had to try 10 times and just settle for the one with the least amount of errors. It was just terrible. The trick I used back then was to install another copy of a barebones version of Windows 95. It was small like 25MB in total size. And you could boot this second copy to copy files to another source and avoiding any files in use problem. This seemed to work well for me for a time. Later the best reliable backups was using partition cloners, like Partition Magic. This was sweet at the time. As you would end up with another hard drive you could just swap out. This was also time consuming though and if you cloned the OS partition, you had to shutdown Windows. And if it was another partition, Windows was locked out from accessing them until it was finished. This is pretty much where I left my experience with backup software. I still believe (probably wrongly) that this is the best that one can do as far as reliable backups. Although I don't do this anymore either. Although sometimes I feel I should. As since '81, I believed if one computer was good, then more is even better. And I continue believing this to this very day. Thus if one computer either has a hardware or software failure, I just hit the power switch on another computer and I am back up running again. No big deal. I still backup my data. And I have installs for my favorite applications and OS, so no problems there. As I don't bother backing them up, because it isn't critical at all, when you have other computers that can immediately take it's place. And I don't like or condone the idea of formatting and reinstalling from scratch either (doing it just once is enough for me). One guy told me he does it monthly. LOL Although I admit that under some rare conditions, one maybe stuck and may have to use this as a last resort. And the last time I had to do this, was back in 2002. So things are going really well for me nowadays and I only backup my data and my Windows Registry using folder/files comparers like Power Desk v5 has. And I haven't had the need or the will for using backup software, like you smart people use.
If BladedThoth had made such false assertions, you’d crucify him.
No I wouldn't. I stayed silent for over a month and I didn't say a word. I just watched to see if his reviews were going to be all of the same or not. And I only said a few things about him off and on just recently. Nor do I see me mentioning too much in the future.
I’ve used various immediate system recovery and drive imaging programs for years and NONE of them are “very time consuming” in making backups, especially updates, and none require a user to stop using his PC for other purposes. Rollback Rx creates snapshots of entire hard drives in 3 seconds or less; other programs take a matter of minutes. ISR software restores hard drives simply by rebooting. What could be easier? And unlike Windows System Restore, ISR programs are utterly reliable and protect everything on a system. Such technology has been around for years and information about it is readily available on many websites and discussion boards. When confronted with your inaccurate posts, you cited inexcusable ignorance as your defense and labeled a person cognizant of reality as a “know-it-all.”
Good for you! And yes I am ignorant of modern backup software and I admit it. But like you smart people, my plan works very well for me. As I like to know what is going on with my backups. And I like my plan that I am up and running again with a flick of a switch. While your plan only protects you for software problems, while my plan protects me against both. But since I am just a dummy, how would I know which plan is better?
You’re don’t behave like any engineer I’ve encountered,
Because I am not! I was the engineer who others recognized if anybody could figure it out, Bill could. Thus I ended up solving engineering problems not only in the US, but worldwide. Then I realized showing people your potential was a big major mistake! I hated sleeping in motels and flying everywhere. And other engineers could call me for help. But there was nobody I could call for help. That just sucked! The buck always stopped with me whether I liked it or not. And I had no choice but to solve any problem that came up. And now I understand what Albert Einstein meant when he said: "I should've been a plumber".
but you surely remind me of many ethically-impaired attorneys.
Surely you jest! "Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance." ~ Albert Einstein]]> Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:47:06 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#comment-8650 <![CDATA[By: BillW50]]> https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#comment-8649 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:45:56 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/conceptdraw-mindmap-personal/#comment-8649