No, I was not sleeping off Thanksgiving overindulgence instead of writing this backup reminder on Friday morning. I was just absorbed in completing my delayed-and-necessary reinstall before heading to work. I thought a late reminder would be better than none, and now that I'm finished with all but those last little tweaks that drag on for a week or two, I can pass on the backup-related lessons … [Read more...]
Seagate “Spy Scare” a Tempest in a Taipei Teapot: All They Want is Your Warcraft Password
The Ur-Guru sent me a link this morning to an article in The Inquirer entitled "Seagate Hard Drives Turn into Spy Machines." Now, you have to expect overblown headlines from a paper whose purpose is to spread controversy, so I passed the link on to Jason Pecheck at Seagate and asked him what was up. Jay phoned back within about 10 seconds of my pressing the "send" button, which suggested that … [Read more...]
Rebit: Ridiculously Simple, but Ridiculously Slow: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 11-09-07
A few days ago I received a review copy of the new Rebit backup device. Rebit (not to be confused with reByte, which I wrote about back in 2004)claims to be "ridiculously simple backup" for Windows computers. (The XP version is available now, with Vista coming soon.) It comes in a cute green box with a frog logo and the tagline "Retrieve. Restore. Relax." In the box are the device (basically a … [Read more...]
Test-Driving the (Maxtor OneTouch) Mini: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 10-19-07
Yes, I'm two days late with this. Friday morning we were in Dunsmuir. It was raining so hard you couldn't even see Mount Shasta, the Ur-Guru was in an evil mood because of the weather, and we were facing a long drive across the mountains to Eureka to meet my long-lost cousin and his family. So I had just about time to back up the computer to my new Maxtor OneTouch Mini drive, and no time to write … [Read more...]
Drowning in Drives
I want to start this week's Backup Reminder with a story about how spam blockers can sometimes backfire. It turns out that Jay Pechek at Seagate actually responded to the first message I sent him about the unexpected and untimely demise of Teras, the Maxtor Shared Storage II drive he had sent me last August. The problem was, I had recently turned on a challenge/response system for my sallie [at] … [Read more...]
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