Sorry this late by a day.  Wishing you the very best in the world.  Hope you had a great day and many more blessings to come.

Heard about the boss’s gift.  

Dad

Did you vote? I did. Say yes if you have…

I know this is a long post, but I truly encourage you to read through this and ask questions since this can be a severe problem. Just trying to bring some computer literacy to the masses.

It’s Halloween, but not much is scarier than going to your computer hitting the switch and getting one of a set of outcomes…you hear an unnatural clicking coming from your computer, nothing is coming on, or maybe sparks!!  I hear over and over about people who weren’t prepared for their computers to go down, and years of data is lost. Just to get you to understand the magnitude of backing up your data, here’s some stats that can help you to understand:

• 43% of computer users loose valuable data due to accidental deletion, and that is with the use of a Recycle Bin
• Only 3 out of every 100 stolen laptops are ever recovered
• Up to 13% of hard drives fail in their first year of use
• The average lifespan of a “non-server grade” hard drive is approximately 5 years
• CD-Rs have historically had problems with lifespan. The cheapest CD-Rs have been seen to only have a 2 year lifespan, DVD-R are lasting longer but have yet to be fully studied. This is due to dye fading, commercial DVD and CD don’t have this problem.
• Flash drive (or Thumb Drives) have a 10,000 to 100,000 flash limit before the old data can possibly corrupt. This means data that hasn’t been touch in a while could be corrupted (or un-remembered). This limits a flash drive to approximately 4-5 years with light to medium usage.

So there you have it. Think about all those precious pictures you’ve placed on a CD-R or DVD-R and haven’t touched.  Is it 2 years old? You might want to re-burn it.  Think about all the natural disasters? Dallas had an earthquake today, wildfires in that West Texas wind, Houston and flooding/hurricanes.  Are you going to be able to reclaim your data if something happens?  You hotel room gets broken into?  Call be paranoid but here’s my personal story:

In the past 3 years I’ve had three laptops fail on me. Four laptops in the past 5 years (well 1 laptop failed twice). I’ve also had a hard drive that was only 4 years old fail on me to the point where I had to pull out a Linux drive recovery tool and could get my data off right before it completely died.  That’s 4 possible serious data losses in 3 years.

So now that I’ve typed over 350 words on why, here’s the how. Read the rest of this entry »

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to Gary D……., Happy Birthday to you.  Man, I should go on the road with a voice like that. 

Hope you are having a splendiforous day and many many more to come.

Happy Birthday.

Just wanted to give a big THANK YOU to Shana.  Most of you are aware and know this but I just wanted to let Shan know that she is the absolute BEST.  She has taken on the role of “managing Jerry” and this is no small task.  She has spent countless hours on the phone with agencies and with Jerry making sure that things are right and in order.  Without her, we would be in a big mess with Jerry right now, so Thank You Shan for all of your untiring and unselfish work you are doing for the entire family.  You are truly a blessing to us all.

Thanks Shan for just being you,

Kent

OBAMA IS A FAKE

Please watch this and forward to everyone you know!!!!