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1 year ago

in Transferring More Than Data from Computer to Computer, Why So Hard? on Bob Caswell
Spend a few bucks on an external USB hard drive, I think that the 500GB one is just over $100 now. Plug it into the old computer, copy all of the stuff you want to it, turn off the old computer, plug the USB drive into the new computer and copy it over to it. This will also have performed a backup of your pictures. Every now and then just copy all of your important stuff to the external drive, it's a backup!

Another possibility is to put all of your pictures up on Picasa, picasaweb.google.com, it's a free gallery of your pictures, as well as a backup of sorts.

1 year ago

in Transferring More Than Data from Computer to Computer, Why So Hard? on Bob Caswell
These days you don't have to know any more about a kernel to run Linux on your desktop or laptop than you do for Windows. Get a Fedora 7 or Ubuntu/Kubuntu livecd, boot it to check hardware support, you'll be amazed. It's actually easier than Windows in many regards. If you want to install some software, say image editing, go to the "Add/Remove software" program on the menu, and select what you want from the list, usually there are 3 or 4 things of the same type to chose from, and say apply, all done, almost never a need to reboot, but it'll tell you if you do.
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