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The good, the bad and the geekery...

  • Sep. 8th, 2008 at 4:23 PM

The good news is that aside from time, none of the submissions to my slush pile are affected.



The bad news is that during the computer transition the hard drive that had all the info died it has been sent out to a data recovery places and in theory I will get it all back.



The Geekery is that while out looking for a new backup drive I noticed that Radio Shack had the 8 gb Cruzer drives on sale for $24.99 they are normally over $80 there.

Also, Best Buy, Radio Shack, and Staples all had sales on external drives. 1tb drives for less than $300, and 500 gb drives for short cash.

Continued geekery is that this post was brought to you by the cranky Chrome Browser.

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[info]amandatkd wrote:
Sep. 8th, 2008 10:08 pm (UTC)
I feel for you. I thought I was the only one HDs hated.

How do you like Chrome, btw? Other than it being cranky.
[info]onyxhawke wrote:
Sep. 9th, 2008 08:53 am (UTC)
Right now its obnoxious to use because it doesn't let you use any of the keyboard short cuts. And, for whatever reason it doesn't have their spell checker built in to fields...
[info]rodney_g_graves wrote:
Sep. 9th, 2008 06:01 pm (UTC)
Backup Strategies
The best backups are those which do not require user interaction. My method is to have a shared drive/folder on a the network which is mapped to user systems. That mapped folder is made available offline (a feature of Windows 2000 and later). Thus if the network drive fails, the data is on the local PC('s), and if a PC fails, the data is alive and well on the network drive.

Synchronization should be set to run at login, logoff, and nightly at a time when you're usually asleep.

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