This is a funny story…
I have a 30GB USB 2.0 external drive. I also have a 120GB USB 2.0 external drive. My 30GB drive is FAT32 formatted. My 120GB drive was NTFS formatted. I reformatted the 120 to be FAT32 (so my iBook could write to it, hence this story). I was left with five separate partitions. I don’t need five partitions.
So I cheated… I downloaded a Partition Magic 8 torrent file on Elise’s laptop. Think Firefox is immune to spyware? Think again. As I type this (on my iBook) I’m watching pop up after pop up after pop up on the Windows machine. There are four new application icons on her desktop. This is horrible.
Even an ‘experienced’ computer user will be bamboozled when trying to use ‘Add/Remove Programs’ from the control panel.
I thought this question was funny: Are you sure you don’t want to remove this software? Yes. No. If you’re like most Windows users, you’ll click ‘yes’ out of habit. Sneaky bastards.
So the moral of the story is: don’t steal software by means of torrent files. The safer route would be to pick up a prostitute wearing a Redhat miniskirt and carrying a laptop bag.
However, I don’t want to spend $70 for Partition Magic when it would take me ten minutes to merge multiple partitions and I’m not a regular disk partitioner…
Hmmm… all this BS just to back-up my iBook’s hard drive.