Archive for July 17th, 2006
Why RAID alone is not the answer for backups
I recently came across Gina Trapani’s article on the importance of backing up (the comments are worth a read too). I hear what she’s saying - a couple of years ago I very nearly lost a lot of data when a hard disk died and today I have far more important stuff on disk (like […]
Posted: July 17th, 2006 under Storage.
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Migrating an iTunes music library between PCs
Until recently, I’ve been running iTunes on a Windows XP PC but I’m in the process of migrating to a Mac OS X system. Whilst most data transfers have been straightforward, I found that, after moving the files to a disk that could be accessed by both the Mac and a PC (i.e. a FAT32-formatted […]
Posted: July 17th, 2006 under iTunes.
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Microsoft’s digital identity metasystem
After months of hearing about Windows Vista eye candy (and hardly scraping the surface with anything of real substance with regards to the operating system platform), there seems to be a lot of talk about digital identity at Microsoft right now. A couple of weeks back I was at the Microsoft UK Security Summit, where […]
Posted: July 17th, 2006 under Security, Microsoft.
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