Technology
Ok, I have never met this guy, but he seems like a keeper. I have spent two years banging my head against the wall trying to convince my church to get an automated backup solution. I even bought the software and set it up but haven’t been able to get the computer to be left on!
Have you ever lost anything? I use Backup My Pc, (me thinks this is what it is called now, I’ve been using it for 12 years). It has saved my butt with HD failures and the occasional, I have installed to much and am too lazy to uninstall it attitude.
Why I have not yet switched to a Mac:
Software I Own but would need to replace for a Mac:
- Dreamweaver (expensive to replace)
- Acrobat Professional (expensive to replace)
- Fireworks (expensive to replace)
- Photoshop (expensive to replace)
- Office Professional (expensive to replace)
- Bible Works (does it run on a Mac? It’s only available for the PC)
- Luther’s Works (does it run on a Mac? It’s only available for the PC)
- Book of Concord (does it run on a Mac? It’s only available for the PC)
- MsgTag (Windows only)
- Mercury (Windows Only)
Well, I finally got around to listening to Pastor Fisk’s sermon from last week. Oops. His theology is good, but umm.. his facts are, well, a little off. So, I being the perfectionist that I am, am going to micromanage.
I guess that Pastor Fisk wasn’t up on the latest technology. In November of 1995, I had a brand new, Hewlett Packard Pentium 75 that, well wasn’t the best on the market (I remember they had 133′s since my buddy at Best Buy had one!). It was in 1996 I threw that piece of junk away and acquired a Pentium MMX 200 from Sony. It served me well until in 2001 when it was, well retired.
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Well, my computer’s hard drive failed for the fourth time in about 14 months on the 14th. Unfortunately, it took me a couple days to get to Best Buy to pick up a replacement and by the time I got it restored, well, it was yesterday. Oh well…
Now I wish I knew how to keep my hard drives in tip top shape. I only have problems with the internal hard drives and I know the voltage to the drive is ok, it’s been tested by Sony’s lab and two independent shops…
It appears that the most recent backup that wasn’t corrupted was from July 22. I know that is four months old, but what can you do. The forums are live, now lets see if everything works.
Phew, I am so busy with getting my website back online. I believe I have most of the static files loaded. Now I have to upload the database files. This is going to take some time as I can not seem to locate a good backup of the forum’s database.
On top of this hassle, I have to "fix" the church’s computers. Pastor’s sonset up the network, but I don’t believe he knew what he was doing…he locked out the ability to update Windows – even from the administrator account! Needless to say, it doesn’t help that Pastor is computer illiterate.
Andy