Posts Tagged ‘Lifehacking’

No excuse for not having a backup

Saturday, June 4th, 2011

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This morning I read a magazine in which an article was written about home burglary. One of the remarks made by people who had experienced a home burglary was that it was terrible to happen because they lost so many private belongings. So far I completely agree! Then the remark was made: “my notebook was stolen which contained all photos and documents of my child”. That last remark made me write this article about backup. People assure their houses and belonings, paying several euro’s a month, to get some money from the insurance company in case of home burglary. Why didn’t they invest a little time and money in a decent backup?

You should invest some time and/or money to protect your data from getting lost.

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Connect your (old) PocketPC to your online family calendar

Sunday, February 27th, 2011

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I have written a post before about a shared calendar for our family appointments here. This approach is working properly for the past 3 weeks now.

I stumbled upon my old HP Ipaq 4700 pocket pc which is not as advanced as the modern tablets like the Apple Ipad but it offers a touch screen, internet browsing and much more. It is also much cheaper today ;-) . First I wanted to use the build in browser to open calendar.live.com and maintain our calendar online. Suddenly I remembered that Hotmail offers MS Exchange connectivity and that makes it very easy to connect any Windows Mobile device to it. PDA’s using Windows Mobile are build to connect to a MS Exchange server and synchronize the Calendar, Tasks, Email and Contacts. This works very wel.

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Backup strategy and Synology Online backup

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

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I’m happy to see that more users are starting to use NAS devices (Network Attached Storage) to store and share their data, music, photos and videos within a household. Many people choose for a setup with a RAID 1 configuration which means that they have installed 2 harddisks that hold a copy of each others data (mirroring). Within a RAID 1 configuration, one harddisk can fail while the other still holds the data. You replace the faulty drive and your system / NAS is up and running again without any dataloss (usually you can still use it while one drive is faulty).

This RAID 1 protection is one step in safeguarding your data but, depending on your needs, you might want to think about additional protection. Now you are asking, why should I? Because think about what will happen when lightning strikes ruining you electrical devices, your house catches fire or a virus on your computer that starts deleting all data on your NAS. When you delete data, it is also removed from a Raid 1 configuration.

DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE RISKS !

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OpenDNS maakt je netwerk en internet gebruik veiliger

Friday, February 11th, 2011

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Het DNS (Domain Name System) is het systeem wat de internet adressen zoals www.vdsar.net vertaalt naar het bijbehorende IP adres zodat de website op onze computer getoond kan worden. Elke internet aanbieder heeft zijn eigen DNS server die je automatisch gebruikt als je van je internet aansluiting gebruik maakt. Dit is over het algemeen een vrij eenvoudige dienst zonder extra mogelijkheden voor beveiliging, blokkeringen, bewaking of logging.

OpenDNS is een aanbieder van een DNS systeem met veel meer mogelijkheden.

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