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Mike Richter, were you born with
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(Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?)

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(Messages 10, 12 -- 34, 54 -- 69)

( No pipsqueaks have been able to prove ANY of the above is a libel )
( -- despite Mikey's supposed to have proof of misquotes !!! )


Mike Richter (Intolerable Screecher) screeched:
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> Final note: Do not ***ume that those who express opinions have actually
> used the software.

How about bug reports, Mikey?

This bug is about your "readily acknowledge bugs", but
[not use...not know...not write] even though a beta tester:

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William Leech's Thinking on Why No Bug Fix
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Joe Pyles wrote:
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> In mode 1 it leaves the XA bit turned on ...

Why not fixed?

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From: William Leech <-- Moderator of no less than advanced cdr list!
Date: 6/25/01

Indeed. It worries me that the beta process did not pick up on this bug,
but it would probably have got the attention of the relevant people at
Roxio much faster, if certain members of this group who are known for
exaggerating issues hadn't started a campaign over it. Think about it,
everyone knows smh posts ****, therefore there is a natural feeling
towards everything he posts being ****; which means people ignore it
when he actually posts something important/useful. This is just my
thinking of course, based on my personal experiences.

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From: "Camper"
Subject: Re: Waste my money on EZCD 5?
Date: 6/26/01

Now you are blaming Sammy etc for the bugs in the program being there
for so long. Get real!

As you know Sammy does not even use the program, so his posts are only
repeating the problems that other people have posted.

Next you will be blaming Sammy for adding water to your half empty Vodka
bottles <g>
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(Messages 10, 12 -- 34, 54 -- 69)

( No pipsqueaks have been able to prove ANY of the above is a libel )
( -- despite Mikey's supposed to have proof of misquotes !!! )


Mike Richter (Friggin' S***) spewed:
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> Roxio's products come with lots of extras, but they have changed
> over the years and at best were stopgaps for real programs
>
> (except for TakeTwo, which was excellent but has been dropped).

Take Two sure was "excellent" in something, like losing a partition!

Response to 'Lazarus Long' post:

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From: Adrian Miller (A****tec)
Date: 7/29/00
Subject: Re: Take Two Problem

I have recovered lost partitions in the past
with Norton Disc Doctor emergency discs,
it is supplied as a part of Norton Utils.

I do not know what has happened, I will p*** the info on and ask.
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(Excerpt of Lazarus Long)

On closer examination I found that although my C drive was restored,
my D drive was completly gone! Not only the files, but the partition
as well! To make matters worse, the new size of my C drive has not
changed from what it was. It appears that Take Two has reduced the
size of my physical drive to 2.3 meg!
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From: Lazarus Long
Date: 7/27/00
Subject: Take Two Problem

Ok, I have a problem I need some help with.. Heres my situation....
I have a physical drive that is 3.2 gig.. Ive got it partitioned into
two drives. C and D... I have D setup as about 600 meg... I use it
basically for temporary stuff. Nothing fancy. When the time comes
that I have a problem that requires a format of C, i copy my data
files and stuff over to D so I can keep them out of harms way while I
format and reset windows.

About 6 weeks ago I decided to try out Take Two. I made my backup of
drive C only. Didnt see any need to backup a partition that was
basically empty..

Today I had a problem with my system and I was preparing to format and
redo everything.. I moved the data files to D and before I formatted,
I remembered the Take Two disk... Great! I booted up with the
floppy that Take Two made for me and then started the restore process.

It lasted about a hour or so and when it was done, it prompted me to
remove the floppy and reboot... After I did this, everything looked
good. At first....

On closer examination I found that although my C drive was restored,
my D drive was completly gone! Not only the files, but the partition
as well! To make matters worse, the new size of my C drive has not
changed from what it was. It appears that Take Two has reduced the
size of my physical drive to 2.3 meg!

What I need to know is this... Is there any way I can recover the
stuff that was on drive D? If not, how do I at least recover the
drive D partition and storage without having to format C?
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(Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?)


Mike Richter (Friggin' S***) spewed:
>
> Roxio's products come with lots of extras, but they have changed
> over the years and at best were stopgaps for real programs
>
> (except for TakeTwo, which was excellent but has been dropped).

Take Two sure was "excellent" in taking its sweet time!

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From: smh
Subject: Re: backup takes forever cd-r
Date: 12/19/00

"L.D." wrote:
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> I just tried some backups on my laptop. It is p100 mhz, 40mb ram, win98,
> backing up to cd-r via pcmcia slot. It had 790mb to backup.
>
> Take Two took 3 hr 5 min
> Microsoft backup that comes with win98 took 1 hr 48 min
> My Own Backup [restore] took 4 hr. and only had 30% done,
> so I canceled.
>
> Are these times too long? Until now I just copied all important files
> to my cd-r and took about 20 min.
> Looks like it would be faster to reinstall windows and the software for
> hardware and programs and then copy my files back. If it takes as long
> to restore with the backup software as it takes to back up, I know I
> would rather do it with out a backup software.
> What am I missing?

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From: "Wagger"
Subject: Re: TakeTwo restore
Date: 10/14/00

I tried it and at first it wouldn't even see my Yamaha 8824 on the
secondary master alone. Then I switched the DVD player to secondary
slave and both drives were recognized fine. I did have to do a
backup and it worked perfect but it took about 24 hours!

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Subject: Re: Recovery CD
Date: 10/22/00

Ya know I have take two, and backed up my system, backed it up on
to 5 cds. The data looks good under windows but, I created the
emergency dos restore disk, booted to that, and tried the verify
mode, which is suppose to do a restore with out restoring the data,
like a trial run. When it started, it gave me a total time to
restore, 12 hours, I thought that can not be right, but dang, it
read the first disk for 2 hours, after 4 hours it was still only on
the second disk, I canceled it.
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(Messages 10, 12 -- 34, 54 -- 69)

( No pipsqueaks have been able to prove ANY of the above is a libel )
( -- despite Mikey's supposed to have proof of misquotes !!! )


Mike Richter (Friggin' S***) spewed:
>
> Roxio's products come with lots of extras, but they have changed
> over the years and at best were stopgaps for real programs
>
> (except for TakeTwo, which was excellent but has been dropped).

Only "excellent"? Wasn't Take Two the Second Coming?

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Mike Richter got Big Balls
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[Subject was: Frauds by Mike Richter (1 of 2)]

Mike Richter (King Troll) oozed:
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> It is pointless to argue with a troll; it has no brain and therefore
> cannot understand logic.

This is commented on below.

> The history of the issue is well do***ented. In fact, I was the first to
> raise it to Adaptec (before the split) in the mailing list,

You were the first to discover it! Stupid, you just confirmed:

****ty In-House Testing at A****tec
****ty Beta Testing at A****tec
****ty Beta Testers at A****tec

> corrected the engineer who replied on-list and
> finally had the satisfaction of his acknowledging the error.

Are you not proud of yourself! In your attempt to salvage your ***, you
only dug deeper holes for both your *** and A****tec. Confirming again:

****ty In-House Testing at A****tec
****ty Beta Testing at A****tec
****ty Beta Testers at A****tec

Did A****tec do any testing at all?

> The problem is not with NTFS but with NT and it
> is inherent in the OS: it does not have a DOS underpinning.

It's so fundamental and elementary, yet the very engineeer(s) who wrote
the program was ignorant of it! But they are supposed to have written a
"so far ahead" software! This deserves to be on the **** List:

****ty Programmers at A****tec
****ty In-House Testing at A****tec
****ty Beta Testing at A****tec
****ty Beta Testers at A****tec

Is the "no brain" troll supposed to know something which even
the very engineer(s) who wrote the program was ignorant of?

>
> The workaround was do***ented on the list
> and in the primer as soon as I found it.

Ah, the workaround. Remember this? A****tec's definition of bug:

A bug (in the usual sense) is not a bug (in the A****tec sense)
if there is a workaround.

I am sure the fact that there is a workaround and that it's in the
primer will excuse you with your using words like, "so far ahead" and
"perfect." How could anyone to think that is beyond me.

(Oh, I know -- only someone with BIG BALLS !!!)

>
> All that is for your information.
> The troll has the same information,

The troll has "no brain," you intoned, remember? Yet the brainless
troll is supposed to know something!

>
> but it is not interested in facts.

And you are interested in facts, I presume?

Is that why you omitted to mention the "error" in your (9/24/99) post?
Is that why you used words like, "so far ahead" and "perfect"?

it is so far ahead of every other backup product

I restored it with a boot floppy ...
and recovery was perfect.

Does the above give any hint that there is an "error" and that the
workaround is on your Web page? It only gives the impression that it's
the Second Coming.

Also, who would have guessed that "every other backup product" consists
of only one product, DriveImage. Right, Mike Richter is interested in
facts -- if it means omitting or concealing facts!

More Mike Richter's facts:

"I cannot get it to boot my NT system."
"I was the first to raise ... the error."

"I don't speak of T2's bugs because I haven't found them."

Right, Mike Richter, you are interested in facts -- if it means lying
about them!

I said this of you before:

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Mike Richter, You Got Big Balls !!!
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Mike Richter, were you born with
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(Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?)


Mike Richter (Friggin' S***) barfed:
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> Roxio's products ... at best were stopgaps for real programs
>
> (except for TakeTwo, which was excellent but has been dropped).

Take Two might have been "excellent", but still even Adrian Miller, an
Adaptec employee, did not "trust" it:

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From: smh
Subject: Re: Adaptec 4.0 Take Two
Date: 11/26/99

Adrian Miller (A****tec) spewed:
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> > What I found out so far from our exchange is this:
> > (1) You yourself do not have 100% confidence in the program
> > by restoring the backup to a different hard drive. You call
> > this prudent, but I call it lack of confidence in Take Two.
>
> I do not trust ANY backup software until I have tested it
> personally.

You don't trust even your own Adaptec's words?

I don't, but am very surprised that you don't either.
And yet you tell others to trust Adaptec's words!
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Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
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Mike Richter (Friggin S***) spewed:
>
> Roxio's products come with lots of extras, but they have changed
> over the years and at best were stopgaps for real programs
>
> (except for TakeTwo, which was excellent but has been dropped).

"Excellent"? Perhaps you are confusing with the word "worse"?

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From: JParker
Date: 5/23/00

After using Take Two,
I put it on 'worse programs ever created' list.

I would not recommend using Take Two for normal backups
(or anything else for that matter).
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From: &retired0

I figured out why they called it Take Two.

That's the number of extra strength pain relievers
you'll be needing after staying up all night
trying to make it work.

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From: Heaven

Mike Richter seems to be the only one
that can get Take Two to work
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