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backup

About Encrypting your Data – Again

March 2, 2010

Originally published: 01-08-2009 Re-tweeted 03-02-2010 While scanning through some email newsletters, I came across this article . It looks like data security is still an afterthought to many organizations. I cannot stress enough that it is very important to secure your important data. Video Tutorial: Encrypting your Laptop Even home users have Quicken, Money, or [...]

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Click of Death

February 27, 2010

I get on my soapbox about data backups quite often. Anyone who has met me knows that I ask over and over if you have a backup for your computer data. I’ve blogged about it quite frequently as well with specific instructions on what to do. Still, I constantly encounter people who don’t take it [...]

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Cloud Backupify

January 15, 2010

As most of you know, I’m very much into backups. For my local information, I use and recommend JungleDisk. What do you do about “cloud” information though? What if Facebook lost your account? Think that can’t happen? Right. I put a lot of trust in services such as Google; however, ultimately I’m into personal responsibility. [...]

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Classroom Computers

December 27, 2008

============= From Email to a client============= I’ve finally compiled my list of suggestions for helping to secure them and streamline the process of setup. This will help insure consistency of the laptops which will provide a much better classroom experience. Hopefully, the computers will be running XP, but these recommendations will work for Vista as [...]

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Reinstall Windows XP on a Laptop

December 16, 2008

Recently, I had a friend of an existing client call. His laptop had somehow corrupted (apparently) all of the drivers for XP. Unfortunately, time was short and I could not get it back to a working state, before he had to return to Arkansas. To further complicate matters, the corrupted drivers included basically all of [...]

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White Paper – Security Questions

August 10, 2008

This “white paper” was created to present to several clients of mine. I’m posting it to my blog so that it can be reviewed and maybe raise some questions as to how you handle your home and business information. PDF Copy Here Company policy concerning safety and security of data How important is your data? [...]

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Internet Interruptions

August 1, 2008

As taken from a recent email conversation with a customer: There are several issues that can cause internet connectivity issues. If Verizon says that their service is running smoothly, then typically they are correct – although I have seen cases where the ISP states that nothing is wrong with their service and there really is [...]

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Backup and Imaging

July 13, 2008

Obviously, backing up your data is the most important since you can always replace failed hardware. However, recovering from a system crash can be very time-consuming. Installing XP, Vista, or Linux plus all your applications and then tweaking your system can be a pain. Acronis® True Image Echo Workstationhttp://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ATICW/ Add-ons / Acronis® Universal Restorehttp://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ATICW/universal-restore.html*This allows [...]

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Trusting Google with your Email

July 13, 2008

When Gmail first came out I started using it as an address for message board registrations and things like that. Since I’ve owned my own domains since about 1999, I’ve always used them for my primary email. My old method of backup was to use Outlook or Outlook Express and finally Thunderbird for POP3. Periodically, [...]

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The Importance of Backups

July 9, 2008

Originally published 7-9-2008. All too often, I have clients whose computers crash. Fortunately, I can recover the data most of the time, but there are times when the hard drive physically fails. In those cases recovering the data becomes nearly impossible and very very expensive. Recently, I created a document for my clients on “The [...]

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