You may have noticed that there was no new article on The Internet Patrol yesterday. That's because my hard drive crashed, which meant that a) I had no way to write and post an article, and b) I spent all day dealing with a dead computer. Long-time readers will remember that the same thing happened to me last year, and may wonder if I'd learned my lesson. You bet I did. And now I'm going to talk to you about why you need a redundant backup system, with a portable backup device as well as an online backup solution.
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You may have noticed that there was no new article on The Internet Patrol yesterday. That's because my hard drive crashed, which meant that a) I had no way to write and post an article, and b) I spent all day dealing with a dead computer. Long-time readers will remember that the same thing happened to me last year, and may wonder if I'd learned my lesson. You bet I did. And now I'm going to talk to you about why you need a redundant backup system, with a portable backup device as well as an online backup solution. Amazon has just launched a new Amazon checkout program called Checkout by Amazon. A direct competitor to Paypal and Google Checkout, Checkout by Amazon is Amazon's latest attempt to position itself as oh-so-much-more than just a place for you to buy books, and just about everything else. But Checkout by Amazon offers something else that nobody else has - the famous Amazon 1-Click payment button! AT&T has announced the roll-out of their AT&T Navigator Global Edition. This truly global cell phone GPS system allows AT&T customers to use their GPS-enabled AT&T phones to navigate with GPS all around the world. You know what I can't stand? When I click on a link on a website - to go to another page - and it ends up being a PDF download instead. Now, I have nothing against PDF downloads, but I do have something against finding myself downloading and opening PDF files without warning. C'mon people, put a "download PDF file" or "read PDF file" link there, or at least a warning that says "clicking this link will download a pdf file." (In case you are wondering "What is a PDF file?" or "What does PDF stand for?", 'PDF' stands for "Portable Document Format", and it is a format that was developed by the Adobe corporation.) Auction giant eBay was recently fined more than 74million dollars for allowing the sale of knock-off designer purses to go unabated. There has been a big stir created by the announcement that Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has signed on with Google to create exclusive video cartoon content for their Adsense ad network. But we think that the big stir is no more than a tempest in a teapot. Remember that when you commit something to writing, people may read it. A lot of people. This is a lesson which new law school graduate Dianna Abdala is in the process of learning after having declined a job with the law firm of William Korman in a series of unusual and bizarre emails. We all know that a large amount of spam comes through personal computers which are connected to the Internet, and which have been hijacked - turned into "zombies" - by viruses, Trojans and the like. But did you know that, according to SpamHaus, nearly ... |
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