Saturday, April 30 2011
Smoking Ruins
This will not end well . . .Ahh, computers: what did we use for excuses before they were invented?
I'm travelling in Ontario this week, visiting some of our retail partners and doing some store planning. I don't get out here often enough, and it's great to see what's happening in one of our largest markets. I also managed a very nice dinner with Colin and Craig, my chums from Wine Sense. It's their 20th anniversary in business, and we had a planning meeting here in St. Catherines, which is very convenient to the Hilldbrand Winery. Dinner at the winery restaurant was pretty darn fine, and a good time was had by all.
Posted by Techno Tim AT 7:53AM | 1 Comment | Post A Comment |
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Pat
Posted 2 years ago
Tim;
I understand your concerns and frustration.
Two ideas for you to consider:
1) Gotomypc.com . This service will allow you to log on to your home or office computer from any place that has internet service. Quick, efficient, and reasonably priced.
2) rather than a memory stick, consider a 1 GB "Western Digital Passport". About the size of a package of cigarettes, usb connection, and always handy in your laptop case.
3) Bonus: ;) Look at online backups. There is some secure storage available out there. You can even use your Googlemail as this storage if you like.
Pat,
It's backed up already. My problem is that both of my back-up copies (one on my 2 TB RAID array and another on a piddly little 500 GB drive I use for pictures and such) are both back in BC while I'm in Ontario with my presentation due on Monday.
1) I can remotely log on to my company server, and access my mac, but both of the drives I use for backups are off-line
2) One gigabyte wouldn't work for me on a drive: I've got 3 GB of PowerPoint presentations alone! I have a 16 GB stick I carry with me, but it's got other things on it. That's why the two drives (one at work, one at home).
3) If I were to put proprietary company documents in an offsite server or cloud app, my next step would be to clean out my desk: very naughty by company standards.
So, I'm at square one, making slides and chewing fingernails. But then again, like I say, if I'm so smart, I shouldn't be worried, right? ;)
Tim