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Comment Re:perhaps it's because their pages suck (Score 0) 200

I'm 28 and have run basically the same course, with the addition of a divorce, kids, and a factory sell out with a lay off. Google is my choice provider of email and maps. My Gmail has about 6 years of emails, and anything beyond that is just for reminiscing. No college degree, but spent 5 years running a factory with mostly linux servers and one SBS server for MS-SQL that the ERP system ran on. I hosted everything on-site with the nice Adelphia / Zito Media fiber run into the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania.

In the last 2 years I helped my sister start an art giclee print shop. 12 color printers are a huge headache with rich, picky artists demanding perfection. For the art shop, hosting email on google for our domain and business has "just worked" and "for free".

Then I moved back home to start flying. Meanwhile I'm working cleaning jobs, dish washing, and delivering food, while earning my Private Pilot's license. We've got some high unemployment, and people just don't have money for computer tech help.. commercial or private.

What does Yahoo! have to offer?? Their messenger never was that great. Trillian has an account on there.. along with my old ICQ number and AIM account. They just make me think of a "hey, me too!" type of company. More hype than "wow, cool, that's the best i've seen that done!" sort of thing.

Oh.. maybe yahoo games are better. but that's because MS bought Zone and ruined it, just like hotmail. Every now and then I'll play chess with a friend waiting for a flight at the airport.

Whenever I "fix" someone's computer with all the Yahoo toolbars installed, I just wonder if they like the color purple a little too much. Other than the color.. there are better solutions that are simplier, quicker, and just plain better.

BTW, FireFox now has its own sync, much like chrome. Xmarks used to support everything between browsers, but their stupid dropping of password syncing and company sellout lost my interest.

Comment Light up the phones (Score 0) 496

http://www.oakgov.com/prosatty/index.html

Seriously.. Gmail gives a free phone account. Call the "prosecutor's office" and ask them if that's a felony crime.

A felony crime means no guns, and no voting for life in some states. It also means no job. Or good luck finding one.

BTW, a REAL person answers the phone !!!! please reply if you called and asked

Comment Re:Lack of redundancy (Score 0) 407

Take I-95 south from DC on any weekday after 2pm. You'll find plenty of problems there. Even the HOV comes to a stop when it merges back in.

If I'm going north around 5pm, I'm better off doing 95 or the parkway to Baltimore, and hitting 83-N to York.. rather than taking 70-W out of DC.

Comment Re:When is backing up *not* an option? (Score 0) 711

Here's my setup...

Backup Server, Old Compaq DL380, 4 x 500GB SATA drives ($350)
SATA 4 port card ($20)
LTO-3 Drive ($1500)
LT0-3 Tapes 30 x $30 = ($900)
SCSI 160 card ($25)

I've got Disk2Disk2Tape, 1.3TB online, 400gb x 30 on tapes.. nightly rsync from 4 different servers, weekly full backup to tape. Complete DR data backup (and windows system state bak's).. under $3k.

And if you set the blocksize to 256k, and use STAR, it'll fill a 400gb tape in 2 hours. That's on dual pentium 3's.

Comment Re:Family Provide Our Best Stories (Score 0) 855

I had an English professor that learned to use the mouse upside down. She said it happened in the lat 80's in LA.. and "NO" we weren't going to teach her the correct way. Whenever we used the projector computer, we had to flip the mouse around...

Now I know why all the FPS games have a "reverse mouse aim" checkbox.

I always start with what seems to me as the dumbest possible problem. Usually I'll mention it jokingly.. as in.. "Is the power cord plugged in and the power strip turned on?"

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