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[forker]

Key to stability is to upgrade nothing. Nothing at all.

My trading workstation is an old piece of junk and it's been that way for years now but it's all I need.

I used to do hardware and software maintenance for a small office and it was always people upgrading on their own that caused problems. It locks you into a never-ending cycle. It starts off innocently enough, e.g. Adobe Acrobat says you should upgrade, and you end up buying a new machine (and wasting hours re-installing and all that jazz)

So if you don't upgrade, and you run a disk scanning program and a defragger regularly and a Registry cleaner (or is that history now? - I'm on linux these days), then you'll never need any more hardware until it wears out.

Sticking to what I've got and foregoing those nice-to-haves meant that I not only didn't buy any hardware (for this workstation) for 8 years, but I spared myself the hell of endless windows problems.

Just my 2 cents.

you still run the risk of hardware failure or virus infection, at the end of the day recovery is at least a few hours away

 

[Adamus]

You can't avoid the hardware failure problem but with a decent backup recovery program you can just re-image your hard drive in 30 mins.

As for virus infection, just use thunderbird and firefox with a few of the no-script add-ons installed and you won't need a virus scanner - that's assuming that you'd never be rash enough to open up an exe, a doc or a zip from the net. It follows that if I never upgrade or install anything new, I don't have to.

 

[keano]

Easy. Stop browsing porn.

No deal.


I won an ebay auction yeterday on a new PC. Should arrive in a week or so. Looking forward to it. Had mine for about 5 years now. Dont know much about computers but im sure the OP's advice is sage. (though I really dont understand much of it! 'virtual machine'?? Vmware?? Ghost/image software??)

 

[0007]

No deal.


I won an ebay auction yeterday on a new PC. Should arrive in a week or so. Looking forward to it. Had mine for about 5 years now. Dont know much about computers but im sure the OP's advice is sage. (though I really dont understand much of it! 'virtual machine'?? Vmware?? Ghost/image software??)

Don't all ebay PCs have a file with loads of people's bank details? Probably worth more than the PC

 

[johnlvs2run]

I ought to actually wrap up Interactive Broker's Trader Workstation as a ready to install package for Ubuntu, thinking about it...

The IB Trader Workstation demo is running fine with Linux Sabayon.