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Halloween The scariest thing I can think of is a hard drive crash with no backup. Are you sure you’re Backed Up? Businesses Today, most of us in business, have our entire business running on computers. In the event of a catastrophic failure, applications can be re-installed, hardware can be replaced but DATA that isn’t backed up is gone. Gone, as in, disappeared, never to be seen again. Even those of us who do back up: When was the last time you verified a backup? When was the last time you checked to see if there is any data on your backup? When was the last time you did a test restoration of your backup to see if it really works? “If you haven’t verified your backup system, then you may as well not bother backing up.” And even if you do verify, you may still have other issues. The following scenarios are based on real life occurrences. Timid Tim was instructed by his supervisor to change the backup tape every day. Tim did this until the day the Tuesday tape became stuck in the tape d

Memory-RAM-not senior moment type

As a certified senior citizen now I find memory more crucial. As a computer professional it has always been crucial. The deluding advertising of "Vista Ready" computers having 512 Mb of RAM is just that delusion. The lure of a low price will provide you with extraordinary frustration. It appears that Vista only sees 3 gb of RAM. The closer you can get to that the better. Now the money saving part, I carefully (obsessively) researched the price of a 2gb RAM module for my new laptop. Kingston, which I love, was $169.00. Shopping that the lowest price I found was for generic memory for $89.00. However the firm was in my state so sales tax ran that up to $95.34. I checked the company's rating on http://www.resellerratings.com/ at it was 7.42 out of 10. Another firm had a 8.95 lifetime rating, with brand name memory for $115.00. I then found a coupon on http://www.retailmenot.com/ for 15% off. So now I am down to $97.75 with a better rated company, brand name memory and free