--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote:
>
> On 07/20/2013 07:41 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
> >
> > Jason:
> >> I wonder if I should shift to Mac OS or Ubuntu.
> >> Any comp expert here who could give me some
> >> ideas?
> >>
> > P.S. Back up your computer with a BluRay external
> > drive with USB-3 and ImgBurn free software. (You
> > may have to update the Win 7 drivers for this,
> > but from what I've read, Win 8 supports USB-3.)
> >
> > "I ran one experiment to confirm that USB 3.0
> > really is about 2.5x faster (as some web sites
> > claim) to burn Blu-ray Discs (BD-R) than USB 2.0
> > (ie. the USB channel is the bottleneck..."
> > - posted by testmaster
> >
> > Amazon review:
> > http://tinyurl.com/mznh53o
> >
> >
>
> Depending on one's setup and external network drive might be a better
> solution especially if you have a lot of data to back up. I got a 2
> terabyte Seagate GoFlex Home drive a couple years back. It's a network
> drive and not that expensive. Though I could do file backups with it I
> wanted to do an occasional image backup and getting Clonezilla to see
> the drive on the network proved difficult. I finally got it working
> just yesterday. The problem is that many articles on how to do things
> are written by IT techs who do this all the time and forget steps or
> variants which are important even if you are tech savvy person but just
> don't do IT things all the time.
>
> Now I have this solved I can image back up my 1 terabyte drives on the
> Ubutnu machine and the Windows 7 which by the way are far from being
> full so the image backups which are compressed anyway won't fill up the
> Go Flex. I used an external 500 GB drive to backup the Linux partition
> on this machine especially when trying to update in which case I didn't
> like the Unity interface (not for programmers) and restored the prior
> partition.
>
> Keep your backup drive hidden so that if someone breaks in and steals
> your computer they don't steal it too.
>
For many years, I kept my desktop machine behind a DSL router as hardware
firewall, with the WiFi on a different IP address. When I got the new Netgear
wireless router, with it's built-in NAS, I ran a Cat 5 cable upstairs to the
router and plugged in my desktop machine. I have a 2T USB hardrive plugged into
the router, and I mapped the network drive to a drive letter in Windows. I also
got a WiFi color laser printer and ran Cat 5 from the living room DirecTV
receiver to the router.
Having so much stuff connected together on a household subnet is really
convenient. More often than not, I watch satellite TV on an iPad in my office
or bedroom rather than on the big TV in the living room. All the computers,
iPads, and phones can print directly to the printer. The old Dell laptop that
runs the post count script has a scanner plugged into it, and it functions as a
color laser copier.
When Petra was told by some muscle-testing woo-meister that she has WiFi
poisoning, I moved the router from its more centrally located position over to
the south side and config'd it to put out only 25% of full output power. The
result is that my bedroom has better bandwidth than before, and Petra's entire
side of the house has no WiFi signal at all. Everyone's happy.
