I am getting organized. I’ve created a partition for my E drive and have begun moving all MY files to that drive. If I create it, then it’ll be there. Easy to backup.
TECH: Getting organized … used the ACRONIS disk utility to create a “data” drive
Sunday, August 20, 2006
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TECH: LUGGABLE avoid winrot plan
Thursday, August 17, 2006LUGGABLE avoid winrot plan,My tentative plan is:
1. delete all downloaded software installer distributions <== DONE
Found that LUGGABLE has THREE partitions. Who knew?
#1 FAT16 47.03M 39.66M Free
#2 NTFS the C drive 90G 23G Free
#3 FAT32 3.02G 404.4M Free
WHY?
2. copy everything from HOMEDESK to the WD500;
3. make an image of HOMEDESK on the WD500;
4. GHOST HOMEDESK to cd;
5. pray;
6. repartition HOMEDESK’s 90 into 10-25-45-10+;
7. reinstall XP into the D drive;
8. see what I have lost?;
9. live happiply ever after?
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TECH: HOMEDESK winrot correction plan
Thursday, August 17, 2006HOMEDESK has a bad case of winrot. My tentative plan is:
1. delete all downloaded software installer distributions DONE
2. copy everything from HOMEDESK to the WD500 IN PROGRESS
3. make an image of HOMEDESK on the WD500;
4. GHOST HOMEDESK to cd;
5. pray;
6. repartition HOMEDESK’s 90 into 10-25-45-10+;
7. reinstall XP into the D drive;
8. see what I have lost?;
9. live happiply ever after?
Sounds like a plan. Comments
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TECH: 1&1 blog maps to WordPress … interesting
Thursday, August 17, 2006I thought they were actually doing something!
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TECH: PRINTERANYWHERE looks like it could be useful
Tuesday, August 15, 2006http://www.printeranywhere.com/index.html
PrinterAnywhere is a solution to print documents from a computer connected to the Internet to other people’s printers on the network. You can print directly from your application such as Microsoft Word, Outlook or any other program you work with to a printer connected to another computer next door or ten thousand miles away. With PrinterAnywhere you can share your printers with other or print your documents on someone else’s printer. Unlike fax, PrinterAnywhere does not require the documents being scanned and only then transmitted. don’t want to send (email) electronic copies of the documents. It is also useful whenever the recipient does not have the application to open your documents. Free download.
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TECH: GRIPELOG gives HP the “kiss of death” Caveat Emptor!
Tuesday, August 15, 2006http://weblog.infoworld.com/foster/2006/08/15_a437.html#a437
THE GRIPE LINE WEBLOG by Ed Foster
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
HP Printers: The Older, the Better?
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Even so, many readers say that HP has fallen from the top of their list of suppliers because of quality issues.
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I agree printers suck. I had an OJ85 that ran forever. When it died, fixing it was prohibitive. I’ve been buying printers and they seem to die very quickly. Dried print heads. Strange failures. Expensive ink refills. It appears that Brother is my new choice. Absent any other info. Buy cheap ’cause you’ll be tossing them soon.
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TECH: Search engines for blogs are fooled by something.
Monday, August 14, 2006I have this defined in my rss reader:
AND it pulls up trash like this:
http://bet-wwts.com/archives/manhattan-college-basebal-l/56251/
Any thoughts?
I admire their ingenuity, but it wastes my time.
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TECH: Whose to blame for no backups?
Sunday, August 13, 2006http://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, 2006http://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:
- Window’s
- Office
- other MSFT products
- free stuff that came on the hard disk
- rud that your isp gave you (note: the free mcafee is probably why i’m in this mess!)
- stuff you did
- stuff you downloaded
- stuff you bought with no media
- stuff you bought, media & keys & stuff gone
- settings inside programs that won’t divulge what you did or allow you to export your own data
- time spent in recovery
- all your data
- all your methods and procedures
And this is a productivity enhancer?
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TECH: Why do I dislike Outlook? Let me count the ways … …
Sunday, August 13, 2006I 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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