Posts Tagged ‘data’

How to Tell When Your Hard Drive is Going to Fail

Hard drives form the basis of our computing. The use of computers comes down to manipulating data, and the hard drive is, of course, where we store all our data; family albums, music, work documents, email, the list goes on.

Most of the components in your computer are electronic devices. They don’t fail with time like a mechanical device such as a car. But your hard drive is one of… » Continue

March 24 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: backup, data, diagnosis | 15 comments»

Trial by Fire Productivity - The Unexpected

This post is part of the Trial By Fire Productivity series.

“True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.” ~ Tom Robbins

This wasn’t the entry I expected to post this week.

Last week the death rattle of my hard drive whirred loudly, and the drive crashed. It happens. I suppose it… » Continue

March 23 2007 | By Tony | Tagged: backup, data, software, trial-by-fire | 6 comments»

Ask Readers: Backup Strategies & Methods

I’m just getting ready to do some backups of my system, and I was going to do a pile of DVDs as my backups, but then I realized just how much time that would take. Booooooring. So now I’m thinking that I’ll just go buy an external hard drive, shove everything over, and store it somewhere else.

And then it dawned on me: I know LOTS of people who stick… » Continue

July 11 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: backup, bestpractices, data, howto, Lifehack, storage, tips | 26 comments»

Open Source USB Privacy Suite

Traveling Forever has a very informative and useful article on how to set up a USB stick for encryption and anonymous surfing, if you’re concerned about your internet privacy, especially when it comes to your government’s use of your data.

You see, there are fundamental problems with the way the internet was designed in regards to security and privacy. Every email message or web address sent unencrypted (probably every message… » Continue

May 31 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: data, eff, freedom, privacy, protection, security, software, usb | 4 comments»

A Text Information Sytem

Everyone has their own information system, Merlin from 43Folders has come up with his system on storing his text information by using a traditional text file. Some unique features on his system: