I received my new Rebit 5 device, a charmingly slim, black 500 GB portable hard drive, on March 21st. (There was a time when Rebit wanted to get away from selling hardware, but that idea seems to have fallen by the wayside.) The first time I tested a Rebit drive, the software was pre-installed on the drive. Also the second time. And the third time, with the SaveMe drive I got for my mother. … [Read more...]
Surprise! No More Dmailer Online
It seems like only yesterday that I was writing my review of Dmailer’s online backup service. It was actually almost a year ago. That was long enough, apparently, to convince the folks at Dmailer to get out of the crowded online backup market. They’re handing their online service over to YuuWaa. I haven’t mentioned YuuWaa before, but they have been around for a while; they’re on my list of … [Read more...]
Is Cloud-Based Data Protection Really the End of Backups?
Joel Maki at Zetta has been sending me pitches for about a million years. The problem is, Zetta provides enterprise storage services, which isn't want most of my readers are looking for. Most recently, however, he sent a copy of the report Zetta VP Products Chris Schinn gave at the November 2010 Cloud Expo. There are some useful statistics about the growth of data and storage needs, incidence … [Read more...]
Back Up Your Code
Last week Ivan Misner asked me to add some features to the BNI Podcast website, namely the Digg Digg and the Translate This Button plugins. Installing plugins is a simple enough task, as anyone who works with WordPress knows. Configuring them, however, can take some time. I determined that a horizontal layout was best for the Digg Digg sharing buttons given the fact that they showed up right … [Read more...]
Computer History Museum’s New Exhibit Comes with a Warning
There’s a new exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, which the Ur-Guru and I enjoyed a visit to a few years ago. The exhibit is called “Revolution: the First 2000 Years of Computing.” What? Two thousand years? Yeah, you thought the Babbage Engine was old, but the Antikythera Mechanism dates back to the 2nd century BCE. The Computerworld article about the exhibit … [Read more...]
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