Jane Talks Tech!

I've been using Windows 7 for over a week now and it feels very familiar, but much faster and more stable than Windows Vista SP2. Some have opined that Windows 7 is what Windows Vista should have been and I have to agree reluctantly. Without knowing all the facts, it appears that they had to ship something and Vista was it. Their slogan for Vista was "The WOW starts NOW" and if you've read several screeds about Vista's failures, you can appreciate the irony of that slogan. ...

The inspiration for this is the hundreds (nay, thousands) of people that have lost data. Despite the dropping price of external hard drives and content management systems that make backing up as easy as 1-2-3, people lose data. In my case, I've lost data from my computer as well as from old blogs. Right now, I'm using a new-ish content management system called Habari which doesn't have a plugin that will automate the task of backing up my blog's database. So, I'm going to go into the phpMyAdmin (web frontend for my MySQL database management) to export my database files. ...

So, it's been over a week since I had the Seagate FreeAgent GO drive in my possession and I have to say that the form factor has actually resulted in me using this drive to backup files more. It's a little surreal for me because normally, I'm afraid to handle electronics, but the design of this GO drive makes it feel like it can handle the wear and tear of being in my backpack. With my Iomega eGo drive, I felt as if I could feel all the moving parts and I was exceedingly careful whenever I brought it out. ...

Welcome back to part 3 of my foray into the Ubuntu/Linux system. To recap:...