It’s the kind of situation that none of us like to think about–a fire burns the headquarters or a flood damages inventory and shuts down the entire area, but it’s the kind of situation every small business needs to be prepared for. We’ve all seen news stories after disasters showing people who don’t know...
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Contingency Planning
Eavesdropping
As a technology person I work at coffee shops a lot. I usually try to avoid listening in on other peoples conversations – mostly out of respect for the privacy of other people and partly because I just don’t want to know. In this case I looked up from the tedium of entering time...
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Sprint security
So I find myself in the middle of an issue with Sprint. I have to say that while I like the quality of their phone service they do leave something to be desires from a customer service standpoint, but that is not the worst part of my interaction with Sprint. My issue with them...
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Virus protection
So there’s always a debate on which is the best anti-virus program. One day there’s a study showing one is the best and the next day that program seems to be at the bottom of the list. This one is faster, that one catches more, the other one deletes more and another has less...
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Windows 7 torrents
I had a couple of items I needed to download via torrents last week. I installed uTorrent on my newly set up Windows 7 machine and got started. Now I am used to the idea that when torrents are going on in the background with unlimited speed the rest of the network activity on...
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Windows 7 convert by accident
Long story short. While copying my data from my main machine to a new hard drive on which I had just done a fresh install of Windows 7 the drive on my main machine died. Complete hardware failure including one of the noises you can find at: http://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com/company-info/recovery-tips/. None of the noises on this...
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