I have a son who's a prof and finishing his Phd thesis. (He promises he will graduate in the spring).

I reformat the drives, put black electrical tape over the words Band in a Box and he uses them to backup his computer. I also put open office on the hard drive so if he's somewhere in a library etc. he just pops it in and works away.

I keep the previous version around that I update and sync with the current version sometime after I consider it stable, so that I can feed my paranoia, otherwise I'd wake up in the night in a cold sweat and freak out. The question isn't if I'm paranoid, it's if I'm paranoid enough!

Just have a visible tumour the size of a lemon in your neck and the get told to watch for 'new' ones. I do not have any stress, I repeat I do not have any stress. If you are paranoid, stay on the line, we are tracing this call and will dispatch a helicopter and black cars with hypodermic needles to your house in 10, 9,....NOOOO

John Conley
Musica est vita