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How Reliable is Recordable CD/DVD media? Recordable CD/DVD usage is popular and easy. We use it for backing up our valuable data, family photos, music collection, etc. But how reliable is the media? Generally, recordable CD/DVD has a layer of organic dye that is burned by the laser writer to create the necessary 0’s and 1’s. This dye degrades over time. Poor quality dye degrades faster than better quality dye. There have been reports of failures after as little as two years. So, how do you really protect your valuable data? 1. Most importantly, buy reputable brand blank CD/DVDs. 2. Store them away from light and heat. 3. Treat them carefully, scratches damage discs. 4. Copy your data to a new CD\DVD every few years. |
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Conroy pulls the plug on $1 billion OPEL broadband project Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has pulled the plug on the OPEL consortium’s billion dollar regional broadband network after the Government found the group had failed to meet the original terms of its contract. more |
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Optus says Conroy’s decision to scrap OPEL was flawed The Federal Government’s decision to scrap OPEL’s $1 billion regional broadband network was based on flawed data according to Optus chief executive Paul O’Sullivan. more |
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Spam up by 50% in first quarter of 2008 Worldwide spam volumes have surged by 50 percent in the first quarter of 2008 revealed security vendor Proofpoint today, who now predicts enterprises will see inbound spam more than double this year. more |
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Enterprise Windows use declined in 2007 Businesses are becoming less reliant on Microsoft’s Windows operating system, according to Forrester Research, with deployment in enterprises dropping by nearly four percent in 2007. more |
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Hackers attack International Space Station The International Space Station is in crisis after hackers managed to penetrate what Nasa admits are “significant” computer systems. more |
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HTML Primer Here’s a _very_ basic primer. here |
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Internet Etiquette Article The internet life carries it’s own versions of courtesy, privacy and security issues that all users need to know. Hence a new word has entered the vocabulary - Netiquette (Internet etiquette). more |
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New music format thousands of times smaller than MP3 Scientists claim to have developed a music storage format that uses the absolute least amount of data needed to reproduce a piece of music. more |
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Apple fixes critical QuickTime flaws Apple has issued an update for the Mac and Windows versions of QuickTime. More... and here is the download page here |
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91 Ways to Supercharge Windows The powerful programs we highlight (half of which are free) in our annual utility guide will help you take control of your OS from all angles, including backup, file transfers, organization, networking, and more. See what made the list, and start customizing Vista and XP today. more |
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Roll back device driver updates in Windows Server 2003 Fortunately, there is a safeguard for situations where driver files are not performing as required, after they have been updated. more |
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Intel outlines ESP project Intel has revealed details of its Everyday Sensing and Perception (ESP) project which aims to make computers more context-sensitive. more |
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Sensitive data ’impossible’ to protect No matter how sophisticated a company’s IT system is it is impossible completely to protect sensitive information, UK researchers warned today. more |
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Neurosurgeon: Mobile phones ’worse than smoking’ Growing evidence exists of a link between excessive long-term use of mobiles and certain types of brain tumors, claims neurosurgeon. more |
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A great article on signs of aging and how to reverse them from Total Health Breakthroughs more |
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The Appendix Has a Purpose After All: Repopulating the Gut with Friendly Flora Researchers believe that they may have uncovered the function for the appendix, which has long been thought to be superfluous: the organ may act as an incubator for beneficial bacteria that aid the body in digestion. more |
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How To Live To 101 Here’s a movie that everyone will find intriguing, not that we don’t know what a good diet can do but it is great to see more concrete scientifically validated evidence. It is an uplifting video. here |
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Reducing Electromagnetic Frequency Exposure May Improve Your Health In September 2007, the EU’s European Environment Agency (EEA)1 and the country of Germany2 both issued warnings to their citizens advising them to avoid the use of WiFi and cell phones until further long term studies are conducted, citing fears that the ubiquitous use of wireless technology has the potential to become the next public health disaster on the level of tobacco smoking, asbestos, and lead in automobile gas. more |
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Internet sleuths track down car thief A Canadian man has been reunited with his beloved custom car after eliciting the help of an internet talk-board. more |
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Freezing weather exposes global warming swindle Recent freezing conditions throughout much of the world have sent Al Gore and his associate fraudsters into a massive panic. The “global warming" swindle was supposed to con us into higher energy prices and for us to willingly “love our poverty," while shutting down our farmers and manufacturers. While impoverishing the majority, a small group of carbon traders, fund managers and scientists willing to play the game have made a fortune. The mainstream media blackout of the majority of scientists not buying into this swindle has failed to fool thinking citizens. And now, given the recent global cooling, anyone insisting that we’re causing a global warming disaster, is starting to look as silly those in the Flat Earth Society. more |
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