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Education and Data
Education has definitely changed over the years. Where I live we have two living history museums in our vicinity. The first is Plimoth Plantation (yes I spelled that correctly) and they really don’t even have schools. Then we also have Sturbridge Village which in the grand scheme of things is more modern – think “Little House on the Prairie”. At that site there is a one room school house – exactly like you’d expect it to look. We also have Mystic Seaport which offers even another historical reference point. I honestly don’t know what anyone in education did back then for data. I assume they didn’t do much – they…
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Can You DIY Your Own Data Recovery?
Think about how much you store on your laptop or computer. It’s more than just files. Typically, people also use their laptop and desktop to store their family photos and videos as well, both of which are special and irreplaceable. Now imagine if, by some stroke of a wand, everything on your computer was wiped out – completely lost. It’s like an instant punch in the gut that will go on to cause stress. In that moment, it’s perfectly natural to scramble and try to figure out how to get all your “stuff” back, but is DIY data recovery really the best plan? Here we’ll take a look at whether…
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Timeless Data Management Tips
When I think back to the first days of my career – I have images of my night audit work in hotels. The actual night audit work only took about an hour – the entire rest of the shift I spent loading these giant floppy disks – 8 inch disks. Most people nowadays have never even seen floppy disks – much less floppy disks that are 8 inches wide. I would load one disk after another and each disk took about 45 minutes to backup. Literally I would sometimes have to go through 15 disks to back everything up. My 8 hour shifts began to be 12-14 hours. Technology has…
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Is Your Data Protected?
You own your business – you rely on technology. In this day and age, there is no getting around it – businesses RELY on data and technology. Sure there are some businesses you can still own that may have more manual aspects to them but ultimately our world just doesn’t rely on handwritten spreadsheets anymore – though I do fondly remember those days. I remember starting my accounting career working in the accounts payable department in a hotel. One hotel – 5 A/P employees because we did everything by hand. Then we finally got a mainframe computer and it occupied space the size of two offices and each night it…
