Mar 9, 2009 | backup, hardware
There are no excuses. You must have a backup of your data that is updated regularly. A backup is just a second copy of your files stored separately from the primary computer’s hard drive. It doesn’t matter how that copy is maintained as long as you understand the...
Mar 5, 2009 | backup, hardware
Before we get into specifics, you should know that there are two different kinds of backups: backups of your data, and backups of an image of your hard drive. The one that comes to your mind first is a backup of your data – basically just a copy of your files and...
Mar 4, 2009 | backup, hardware
Let’s spend some time in the next week or so talking about backups. Every computer depends on a hard drive to run the operating system and programs and to store your data. A hard drive has very, very thin round platters spinning incredibly fast (typically 7200...
Mar 2, 2009 | computers, hardware
If you’re like me, then you’ve been caught off guard in the last couple of years by something that you hadn’t realized was obsolete. Here are a few that still occasionally take people by surprise when they get a new computer. PS2 connections (the round ones) for...
Feb 25, 2009 | hardware, HP, printers, software
It seems we’re constantly buying printers to replace the ones that break before their time. A quick word of advice if you buy an HP printer: don’t put that installation CD in the drive! The chances are good that you’ll wind up with hundreds of megabytes of bloated...
Jan 1, 2009 | audio, hardware, Microsoft
A heartwarming story for the end of 2008! On December 31 every owner of a 30Gb Microsoft Zune woke up to a crashed device that couldn’t be started. (The Zune is Microsoft’s competitor for the iPod. Only 14 people own them, so this isn’t all that...
