The Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) service is a pretty good feature of Windows Vista. Windows XP offered a similar feature in a "Previous Versions" client that needed to be installed by the user. This allowed users to take advantage of the backups that had been deployed. Vista's Shadow copy is on by default for the "system" drive and is "built-in". What VSS does is to write a new copy of the file. So, instead of replacing an existing file, VSS creates a new file in available space and points to … [Read more...]
Zune error Code:C00D1316
Well, several months back I decided I wanted a Zune 80gig. So, I got online, found out who carried them locally and went and got one. I will have to say it has been a great investment. It is much better than my wife's 80gig video IPOD. Bigger screen, more vibrant colors, etc.. But, today I started the Zune software to update my Podcasts and found that they would not download. Each podcast showing this error: EPISODE DOWNLOAD ERROR Can't download this episode. There could be a … [Read more...]
Online Backups: Mozy
I have to say that my initial impression of Mozy Backup was not that great. Besides the abundance of outgoing bandwidth at my server the initial backup was very slow. I was only sending up a little over 1.5 gig of data and, it took the better part of a day to complete. But, now that I think about it more, that was actually a good thing. That way the first backup does not totally consume your outgoing pipe. Well, no sooner than my initial backup was complete, I needed to restore some data. In … [Read more...]
Online Back-ups
Well, after great thought and study, I've decided to go with Mozy as my online back-up choice. I've set up the account and have installed the clients. One server and one desktop client. My server has a tremendous amount of bandwidth so, I thought I would do it's initial back-up first. So far I'm not real happy with the transfer speeds but I am transferring 1.6 gig worth of data so I will reserve judgment until it completes. After my initial back-ups complete, I will attempt … [Read more...]
Happy FireFox day!! FireFox 3 released
It's FireFox download day!! The Official release of Mozilla's FireFox browser is up and ready to download. Traffic on the site seems a little high today as it took a few times before my connection to their site went through. So, be diligent, get out there and start downloading!! Get FireFox 3 Now … [Read more...]
Windows XP SP 3
This will be somewhat of an anti-climatic follow-up for most of you guys... After installing Service Pack 3 for Windows XP, I have experienced absolutely no ill side-effects. This is a completely different experience from the release of Service Pack 2.. Whew!! I can say that beyond the download (approx 70meg for me) being a little slow, that was the fault of my internet connection, this has gone without a hitch. In fact, I don't know if this was the intension or not but, my XP machine … [Read more...]
The Toshiba A305-S6843 Laptop
The Toshiba A305-S6843 Laptop Recently I decided it was time to replace my laptop. My old Laptop was a Toshiba 4300 series. The laptop came originally installed with Windows 98SE, 800mhz PIII processor, 16 gig hard drive, DVD rom, 128 meg RAM. When I got this laptop originally it was "The stuff" so to speak. When Windows XP was released I upgraded the OS to Win XP Pro. Over the years, I maxed out the RAM (384meg) and swapped the 16 gig harddrive to an 80gig. And now this machine was "the … [Read more...]