Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Coping with a Serious Data Loss from your Computer Hard Drive
Data loss is an expensive reality. It's a hard fact that it happens more often then users like to admit. A recent study by the accounting firm McGladrey and Pullen estimates that one out of every 500 data centers will experience a severe computer disaster this year. As a result, almost half of those companies will go out of business. At the very least, a data loss disaster can mean lost income and missed business opportunities.
The other side of data loss is the psychological and emotional turmoil it can cause to IT managers and business owners. Despair, panic, and the knowledge that the whole organization might be at risk are involved. In a sense, that's only fair, since human error is one of the two largest contributing factors in data loss. Together with mechanical failure, it accounts for almost 75 per cent of all incidents. (Software corruption, computer viruses and physical disasters such as fire and water damage make up the rest.)
Disk drives today are typically reliable. Human beings, it turns out, are not. A Strategic Research Corp. study done in 2000 found that approximately 15 per cent of all unplanned downtime occurred due to human error. A significant proportion of that happened because users failed to implement adequate backup procedures, either having trouble with their backups, or having no backup at all.
How does it happen that skilled, high-level users put their systems - and their businesses - at such risk?
In many cases, the problem starts long before the precipitating system error is made, that is, when users place their faith in out-of-box solutions that may not, in fact, fit their organization's needs. Instead of assessing their business and technology requirements, then going to an appropriate engineered solution, even experienced IT professionals at large corporations will often simply buy what they're sold. In this case, faith in technology can be an vice instead of a virtue.
But human intervention itself can sometimes be the straw that breaks the technology's back. When the office of a Venezuelan civil engineering firm was devastated by floods, its owners sent 17 soaked, mud-coated disks from three RAID arrays to us in plastic bags. A tough enough salvage job was made even more complex by the fact that someone had frozen the drives before shipping them. As the disks thawed, yet more damage was done. (After eight weeks of painstaking directory-by-directory recovery, all the data from the remaining fifteen disks was retrieved.)
Sometimes, the underlying cause of a data loss event is simply shoddy housekeeping. The more arduous the required backup routine, the less likely it will be done on a regular basis. A state ambulance monitoring system suffered a serious disk failure, only to discover that its automated backup hadn't run for fourteen months. A tape had jammed in the drive, but no-one had noticed.
When disaster strikes, the normal human reaction is panic. Because the loss of data signifies critical consequences, even the most competent IT staff can jump to conclusions, and take inappropriate action. A blank screen at a critical time can lead to a series of naive decisions, each one compounding the preceding error. Wrong buttons get pushed, and the disaster only gets worse. Sometimes the pressure to correct the system failure speedily can result in an attempt to reconfigure an entire RAID array. IT specialists are typically not equipped to deal with crisis modes or data recovery techniques. Just as a good physician is trained to prolong life, the skilled IT specialist is trained to keep the system running. When a patient dies, the physician turns to others, such as nurses or counselors to manage the situation. When significant data loss occurs, the IT specialist turns to the data recovery professional.
Data recovery specialists are innovative problem solvers. Often, the application of basic common sense, when no-one else is in any condition to apply it, is the beginning of the journey towards data recovery. The data recovery specialist draws on a wealth of experience, married to a "never say die" attitude, and a comprehensive tool kit of problem-solving procedures. Successful recovery outcomes hinge on a combination of innovative logistics, applied problem-solving, and "technology triage," the process of stabilizing an affected system quickly, analyzing and treating its wounds, and preparing it for surgery. The triage process sets priorities, such as targeting which files are needed first or which are absolutely vital to the functioning of the business, and establishes whether files might be recovered in less structured formats (such as text-only), which may be desirable when time is crucial.
The art and science of professional data recovery can spell the difference between a business' success or its failure. Before that level of intervention is required, though, users can take steps to ensure that the probability of a data loss disaster is minimized.
Basic to any business technology plan is a regular fire-drill procedure. Back-up routines may be in place, staff may assigned to specific roles, hardware and software may be configured - but, if the user isn't completely sure that everything works the way it should, a data loss event is inevitable. Having adequate, tested, and current backups in place is critical. A hardware breakdown should not be compounded by human error - if the malfunctioning drive is critical, the task of dealing with it should go to a data recovery professional.
Just as data loss disasters are rooted in a combination of mechanical failure and human error, so, too, the data recovery solution lies in a creative marriage of the technological and the human. The underlying philosophy of successful data recovery is that technology is something to be used by human beings, not something that uses us.
About the author: Name: Darryl Peddle Company: CBL Technologies, Canada Author description: Darryl Peddle is an Internet Marketing Specialist with CBL Technologies, one of the largest data recovery specialists in the world. Website: http://www.cbltech.com
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
How To Stop Forelosure
A loss of a job,death in family, medical expenses and other life-altering situations can happen to anyone, causing us to fall behind in our mortgage loan payments. If we neglect paying our
credit cards it hurts our credit rating; if we neglect our home loan payments the lender will foreclose, and repossess our home. We are often embarrassed to talk about our money problems, but that approach doesn't solve anything. Put your pride on hold and get serious about avoiding foreclosure.Contact your lender as soon as you know your payments will be late. Never ignore the lender's letters and do not assume you are in a hopeless situation. Lenders do not want to foreclose, and will usually work with you to get your account back on track.
Below are Solutions for Temporary Problems
1.Reinstatement When you are behind in your payments but can promise a lump sum to bring payments current by a specific date.
2.Forbearance You are allowed to delay payments for a short period, with the understanding that another option will be used afterwards to bring the account current. Lenders sometimes combine Forbearance with Reinstatement if you know you'll have the funds to bring your account current by a specific date. 3.A Repayment Plan If your account is past due, but you can now make payments, the lender may agree to let you catch up by adding a portion of the past due amount to each currentmonthly payment until your account is current.
Solutions for Longer-Term Problems
1.Mortgage Modification If you can make your regular payment now, but cannot catch-up the past due amount, the lender may agree to modify your mortgage. One solution is to add the past due amount into your existing loan, financing it over a long term. Modification might also be possible if you no longer have the ability to make payments at the former level. The lender might modify your mortgage to extend the length of your loan, or take other steps to reduce your payments.
2.Selling Your Home If catching up is not a possibility, the lender may agree to put foreclosure on hold, giving you some extra time to attempt to sell your home. www.wesellhomesdfw.com can help by purchasing your home.
3.Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure The lender may allow you to give-back your property, in turn forgiving the debt. This does negatively affect your credit record, but not as much as a foreclosure. The lender may require that you attempt to sell the house for a specific time period before allowing this option; the option may not be possible if there are other liens against the home. http://www.wesellhomesdfw.com
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Sunday, June 21, 2009
Stay informed about what happens on your PC
Private Eye is an invisible and easy-to-use PC activity monitoring tool. This powerful spy program can record ALL keystrokes typed in any application window, such as user names, passwords, e-mails, chat sessions, instant messages (MSN/AOL/ICQ/AIM), etc. Private Eye even records ALL web sites(URL's) visited in popular web browsers. Logging limit so monitoring stops when a certain size of logging file is reached. Records ALL windows (applications) user interacts with, so you can find out which applications were active at what time.
It captures screen shots of entire desktop (like a surveillance camera) at the predefined time intervals varying from 5 seconds to several hours (so your system is not overloaded). Screen shots are saved in high quality JPEG format so you can see the screen captures in almost any picture viewer. Screen shots size can be customized so screen shot taking stops at certain size without affecting other settings.
The launch of the program is fully controlled by setting a password access so no unauthorized person can start, nor stop it. The program is not displayed on the list of programs that run on your computer so itcannot be forced to stop. It uses very little resources and does not degrade the performance of the computer.
Real time Internet monitoring; records ALL the web sites visited (URL's) and saves then so even if a trace remover program is run or cache cleared URL's will be available. Easy to use user management interface so you can manage logs for all user monitored. HTML reports are generated and saved for later reference.
Monitoring sessions are saved in accessible formats on your hard drive. Private Eye allows you to secure erase (wipe) all it's activities such as log files and screen shot files (without possibility of recovery).
About the author: Established in 2003 Simplogix Inc. has successfully develped and implemented over 150 site projects, meeting the highest standards of software industry. We are a young, dynamic team who knows that perfection is a trip not a destination.Our goal is to provide and implement solutions that help people get the most out of their computers by keeping them running at their real speed and keep the used space as low as possible. By developing quality soft