yordan

I would definitively say "don't put anything under c:". This should probably take place in the "operating system" forum, but I strongly recommend that you put no personal file on the c: disk. Once your system works correctly (let's say the first day you buy your wonrderful PC), you should do a full backup on a removable device (let's say a CD). Then, you should write all your personal files (wordprocessor text files, your c programs and whatever you need) on a separate partition. So, next time you will do a big mistake (yes, Murphy's law say you will do, I did too), or if you have bad luck with a virus, simply reload you backup and your system will be fine again. And you will have lost all the things you wrote as c:\something.dll. So, my message is : don't put anyting onthe same disk as the operating system disk.

+1 for gmail.And also, remember the gmail virtual drive, sometimes very useful.I have seen paid mails which have more adverising than gmail.by the way, the beta-test gmail version is free, will the production version remain free ?

Wow ! Yordan and the "empty calorie" simultaneously posting on the AIX post ! This claims that this subject is important.Who whould be in charge of eventually creating a separate subforum on the AIX subject ?

You are right, ncc, AIX has a lot of users. Moreover, I would say that AIX will have more and more users.Some years ago, the Sun systems were the biggest ones. Now, the AIX systems are the biggest in the world. So, I think that AIX must be present here. And I think that AIX should have it's own subforum. Personnally, I would like to see the AIX posts in their own forum, clearly named AIX, instead of being something strange like "Operating Systems > UNIX (Other Flavours)". @the empty calorie : you are right, AIX supports the PowerPC chips. More interesting, the new power5 chips support partitionning and sub-partitionning. This means that you can put several OS running at the same time in the same box : the database server, the two application server machines and the three web-server machines.