XPost: microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming   
   From: genew@ocis.net   
      
   On Wed, 09 May 2012 22:18:04 +0200, Jeroen Mostert   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 2012-05-09 21:50, Gene Wirchenko wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 09 May 2012 20:44:18 +0200, Jeroen Mostert   
   >>   wrote:   
   >>   
   >   
   >>>>        I download them to my XP system.  Anything that I want on my 7   
   >>>> system, I copy to a memory stick and from there to the 7 system.   
   >>>>   
   >>> If only there was some way to have computers exchange data without using   
   >>> storage media. A sort of "network", if you will. :-)   
   >>   
   >>       Sure.  I could easily connect the two of them.  They are already   
   >> connected to the same router.  A bit of software configuration and my   
   >> 7 system will able to trash my main system!  That is not something I   
   >> want.  I prefer the separation.   
   >>   
   >Then don't shuttle executable data between them?   
      
        No, that would not prevent me from a typing error hitting the   
   wrong drive and targetting the wrong system.   
      
   >I do get your point, but this seems either overly paranoid or not paranoid   
   >enough. I would have to stop and think to "trash" one system with another   
   >over a network connection. I wouldn't be worried about this happening   
   >spontaneously. I'd think disconnecting after the copy is sufficient -- this   
   >is no more dangerous than ferrying in code from the Internet in the first   
   place.   
      
        I do not want to have to connect, etc.  Mounting a memory stick   
   is simple.   
      
   [snip]   
      
   >There are a Windows XP machine and a memory stick in existence that together   
   >seem to corrupt large files. Check. I did indeed not know that. People who   
   >want to replicate your exact scenario without corruption should... I don't   
   >know, use DVD-Rs instead, I suppose.   
   >   
   >You can relax now, I'm just teasing you. :-) Maybe this will indeed be of   
   >use to someone, how should I know.   
      
        Well, given the amount of trouble I have had with SQL Server   
   installations and that others have had troubles, too, this is a   
   heads-up for them.   
      
   Sincerely,   
      
   Gene Wirchenko   
      
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