TECH: Whose to blame for no backups?

Sunday, August 13, 2006

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877-6093189.html#

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#1: Accidentally deleting the VP’s files without having a backup.

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I wouldn’t feel bad. There’s a reason why they call it “personal” computing. And, in an enterprise, any exec worht their salt doesn’t depend on centralized IT for recovery. I once had a low tech boss who printed everything, took it home, where his wife scanned it in to their home computer. Depend upon others at your own peril! If there’s a company policy against it, figure out a way to do it within policy!

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TECH: Why an organized approach to the “personal computer” is needed!

Sunday, August 13, 2006

http://pcmech.com/show/bizspot/981/

Surviving Disk Crashes
Category: Weekly Columns / Small Business Spotlight – August 9, 2006. Posted by Rahul Pitre.

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# You can’t find the Windows XP CD

# You can find the Office 2003 CD, but … the registration key has vanished …

# You purchased some software online and the downloaded file just got hosed along with the now-deceased hard drive. Of course, you don’t remember what user id you used for registration and the credit card used for the purchase was cancelled last year.

# You use the 1999 version of some software. … The 2006 version …  can’t read the version 1999 data files.

# Tech support asked you to make changes to the registry … you can’t remember what you did.

# You can’t remember the name of that little East-European program you use to take notes
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He left out the crap that comes with the system that you got with the system for free but there’s no way to reinstall it or register it or reauthenticate to it or reactivate it. And, it’s was registered using an now defunct email account for an isp that was acquired and spun out six times. Arghhh!

My list would go:

  1. Window’s
  2. Office
  3. other MSFT products
  4. free stuff that came on the hard disk
  5. rud that your isp gave you (note: the free mcafee is probably why i’m in this mess!)
  6. stuff you did
  7. stuff you downloaded
  8. stuff you bought with no media
  9. stuff you bought, media & keys & stuff gone
  10. settings inside programs that won’t divulge what you did or allow you to export your own data
  11. time spent in recovery
  12. all your data
  13. all your methods and procedures

And this is a productivity enhancer?

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RANT: Have an idea; need a patent!

Sunday, August 13, 2006

It’s not easy. TO have an idea that is. So, I want to protect it!

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WRITING: My feedback made it into print!

Sunday, August 13, 2006

http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/gwm/2006/0807msg2.html

Mailbag: Communications in the healthcare industry
Readers weigh in with their views on the healthcare’s slow adoption of IT

Messaging Newsletter  By Michael Osterman, Network World, 08/10/06

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My recent article offering one potential explanation about why the healthcare industry is slow to adopt the use of e-mail and other communications technology prompted a number of readers to offer their comments – here is what some of the readers said:

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* “I blame the technology industry primarily [for the slow pace of adopting communications technology]. No one has a good easy public key encryption system. I look for a ‘solution’ with identification, authentication, authorization, accountability, confidentiality, non-repudiation, continuous protection, and recovery across the problem spaces of users, systems, applications, databases and networks. The technology industry has known the problem space for at least four decades. I remember being lectured about it when personal computers were first put into use! This is all our fault. I could go on for hours. PKI and GSSAPI are/were out there. Encryption engines abound. Yet, I can’t sit down and e-mail, fax, call, or IM my doctor. AND, the doc can’t communicate with me.”

Thank you to everyone who sent me their feedback on the article.
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Hey that’s mine. I got into print again!

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TECH: Why do I dislike Outlook? Let me count the ways … …

Sunday, August 13, 2006

I like to organize my contacts into logical groups (i.e., fellow alums, LinkedIn, Prepsters, Prepsters64, family, friends, acquaintences, coworkers, excoworjkers, exjobs). So I have different files for different groups. What happens when one person is across different groups? Does LookOut recognize people? Nah. That’s your problem!

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TECH: Why do I dislike Outlook? Let me count the ways … …

Sunday, August 13, 2006

It’s inconsistent. (Porbably the most damning thing one can say about a software product)

It takes mental vacations when you are pounding away, and goes off doing something or an other, all I am sure very important, but frustrating.

The right mouse click doesn’t always work. For example, when I am creating a new contact from an alumni record, I cutnpaste (didn’t know that was now a one word verb, did ya?) from an alums info on mcalumdb. Sometimes their birthday is in the mcalumdb, so I highlight it, copy it to the clipboard, take the “details” tab, highlight the trash that in the birthday field, right click getting ready to paste, and nothing. It doesn’t work. I have to cntl v it. Argh!

Also, “take the details tab” means I have move my right hand from the keyboard to the mouse to take it. Arghh! Each tab coulda had an alt key combo assigned to it. SO, I should be able to to an ALT D to it. I think that no one really used this stuff. It’s so obvious.

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LIBERTY: “ZONING” … … another gubamint crime!

Sunday, August 13, 2006

http://www.informationliberation.com/index.php?id=14398

Town shuts down 13-year-old’s $5-a-month worm-selling business because the small cardboard sign on his lawn violated zoning laws
By SARAH MISHKIN, Courant Staff Writer

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CROMWELL — Local worm salesmen, beware. As 13-year-old Joe Cadieux learned recently, Cromwell can be a hostile environment for those looking to break into night crawler vending – particularly if they advertise with a yard sign.
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A variation of the “lemonade stand” flaw of gubamint, where gubamint expresses it’s inability to differentiate significant from insignificant AND it’s general disregard for business AND it basic contempt for its residents.

Personally, I like when they do this because they show the true colors of gubamint — stupidity and brutality! The only thing missing was them shooting someone, imprisioning them, or seizing the home!

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