From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 17 15:51: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D35C937BB8E for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:50:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: from WhizKid (r14.bfm.org [216.127.220.110]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 17:51:11 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000417174932.00890630@mail85.pair.com> X-Sender: whizkid@mail85.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 17:49:32 -0500 To: Brett Glass , From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: RE: M$ anti-trust case In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000417163757.03d33870@localhost> References: <3.0.6.32.20000417141142.008aee60@mail85.pair.com> <001201bfa891$92066480$021d85d1@youwant.to> <3.0.6.32.20000417104107.0088ee50@mail85.pair.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 16:40 17-04-2000 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: >Actually, Microsoft licensed from Symantec (for free -- at "gunpoint") >a product which copies the innermost workings of Gibson's. They >incorporated it into DoubleSpace and Scandisk. True, but Scandisk comes nowhere near to what SpinRite does. Scandisk only fixes problems after they happen, SpinRite prevents them. I once had a power surge destroy everything in my system, except the hard disk which, luckily, I had SpinRited the day before it happened. I don't know much about DoubleSpace. Cheers, Adam ----------------------------------------------------------- "I think, therefore I am." - Seventeenth Century Philosophy "I publish what I think, therefore I have." - Twenty-First Century Action Details at http://www.OnlinePublisher.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message