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I’ll bet you do. I nearly got lynched myself a while ago when I mentioned the new Korean cookery book called “1,000 ways to wok your dog”….. so I know how it feels.
Well it sure sounds as though you ought to fully review your disaster recovery plan – particularly as a business you absolutely cannot afford to lose data.
Your comment about most users not performing regular backups of their computers is frighteningly accurate. OK, you CAN recover data from a damaged or corrupted hard drive (as I can testify) but it is one hell of a long and difficult process.
For ‘home’ users there is a nifty little Windows backup utility that you can easily use. Here’s how you do it.
Insert a flash drive / removable memory stick into an empty USB port and ‘open it.
In Windows XP – click on: START –> Programmes –> Accessories –> System Tools –>
and then “Backup” (all of these are on cascading pop out menus)This will open the Windows backup utility. Simply follow the instructions as to what you want to backup and where you want it stored (i.e. the flash drive which might be called E: or F: or G: (depending on how many other installed drives you have on your computer).
When you have set it up, click “OK” and it will make a backup or duplicate copy of the files you have selected on the drive that you selected. Done.
Er…. yes. Well the lines going down the laptop screen could be several things ranging from a physical screen defect to an improperly installed driver to a screen resolution issue to a screen refresh rate issue.
Without looking at it physically and having a little play with it, it’s difficult to diagnose further.
Re: the wireless connectivity. Do you still have a problem with your ”modem” driver??? What exactly do you mean by ”modem”???
Generally the easiest way to achieve a wireless connection is to use the built in “Wizard” that is usually found in Control Panel.
@pete wrote:
@forumhostpb wrote:
Let that be an awful warning to all video game players. If you over use them, an effing big dog will bound over and shag you sensless.
sensless eh; are you inferring there are JC members over using video games :-k
This is a distinct possibility …… after all (as you recently discovered the hard way) there are many JustChat users that are ‘dog lovers’.
@fastcars wrote:
@bat wrote:
Pats did you try cleaning it? The fan gets an awful lot of dust, which will cause it to overheat and turn it,s self off. Give it a try, you never know.
Give a woman a technical problem and they will try everything except the most obvious… :-
I agree Fasty ….. my favourite comment was “I think I’ll give the modem a clean” …. like that is really going to resolve overheating issues eh?
Let that be an awful warning to all video game players. If you over use them, an effing big dog will bound over and shag you sensless.
@esmeralda wrote:
Oi you speccy tw.at..who said you could nick the title of my..let’s face it..MUCH funnier thread..you are soooo cruising for a bruising! :lol:
Maybe it should be re-named “Shush” …. what do you think???
Yeah watching it was a bit unpleasant. We were lucky in one way though. The video (and sound) feed was chopped pretty much instantly as the US conference room must have been in the area where the plane initially hit and exploded.
It would have been far far worse if it had been say a couple of floors above and we would have been forced to witness much more. At the time, the enormity of what we witnessed didn’t really sink in. It was only several hours later that we finally realised what had happened live before us.
The worse bit for me was actually watching the whole thing evolve on a live satellite feed. I clearly remember thinking (and saying to the service tekkies) words to the effect that bloody US pilots ought to learn how to fly. You see when the first pictures were transmitted, we all thought that it was some sort of awful aviation accident and that the first plane had made an awful navigation error.
It was only as we watched the second plane fly into the secong tower that it dawned on us with a sickening clarity that the entire thig was deliberate and wasn’t just an aviation accident.
Also, I remember watching (again live as it actually happened) the tower occupants jumping out of windows to their deaths and watching the bodies falling and falling. You end up with a tremendous emptiness inside and nobody watching it could find any words at all to express their feelings. I know that we all went home that night and cuddled our families and held them close and were quietly grateful that at least they were safe and alive.
I suspect that the “magic card” is an onboard data encryption device and is needed to ensure the security of your data as it is sent to the backup (off site) server.
Whilst it may be that your backup stuff is ‘compressed’ to save storage space, I also suspect that the backed up data is pretty limited in either it’s scope or content. Probably includes documents and spreadsheets and so on but it absolutely cannot include accounts / financial data and probably doesn’t include e-mail stuff within the databank size mentioned.
As I have recently discovered the hard way, all your e-mail stuff (Outlook) are in the form of ”.pst” files which include not just the mails but also your contacts and settings – essential stuff if you have to recover from a ‘crash’.
If you are running BCM (Business Contact Manager) then these backups are in files suffixed ”.ldf” and ”.mdf” and they are SQL Server files.
My suggestion would be to do a full and complete backup of your systems / servers rather than relying on an ”incremental” and probably compressed backup of some data files.
However, the main point still stands. For 99.9% of home users, backing up your files onto a flash drive / memory stick is perfectly adequate; it can be used over and over again without problem (unlike CD/DVD’s); you can easily ‘drag & drop’ to make copies and don’t have to rely on ‘burners’; and above all the backed up files can be restored directly to your computer without having to open them and change the file properties.
Sorry Pete …. ‘fraid it is, ah the memories that brings back !!!
BTW, doesn’t the lead singer / drummer of The Carpenters (clip below) look like a post-op transexual???
