The pre-release MiniStation DataVault seemed so light, so airy, so harmless, as Jay Pechek passed it to me in the Market Bar in San Francisco’s Ferry Building. “The Defense Department actually classified this as munitions because of the level of encryption,” he explained. Unlike many devices, where you can bypass a Windows password by accessing it through DOS, there is no backdoor on this … [Read more...]
Why Ted Loves Western Digital: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 02-01-08
This week we have a guest column from my colleague Ted Prodromou of Net Biz Experts. Ted and I are both members of the Executive Team for the Bay Area Consultants Network. For those who are interested, he's leading a series of free webinars about Web 2.0, and on February 8th, I'll be presenting about podcasting. I thought my non-geek readers would appreciate a story that demonstrates that even … [Read more...]
Note to Buffalo: Hire a Proofreader
A client of the Ur-Guru's just bought a Buffalo DriveStation Duo USB drive. Kudos to him for taking care of backups, but when he installed the software, he found something a bit less than reassuring in the dialog boxes: In case you didn't catch it (I didn't, the first time), the RAID setup utility is asking the user to restart WiDNows instead of WiNDows. This is doubtless a typo, and while it … [Read more...]
How do YOU Back up Your Computer? FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 12-28-07
Here it is the end of another year of backups—almost time to make those special year-end copies of your important data to store with your tax records. I thought I’d do something a bit different for today’s column, so I put a question out to my LinkedIn network asking the people I know what they do for backups. (And no, this is not what “networked backups” means.) Most of the answers came as … [Read more...]
We Wish You a Merry Backup: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 12-21-07
Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, I'd like to wish you a very merry backup. As I did last year at about this time, I want to urge you to give your friends, family, co-workers, employees, clients (check all that apply), and most of all yourself the gift of backups. Free Online Backup If you're strapped for cash, try sitting down with your loved ones and setting up accounts for them on … [Read more...]
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