Backup and Foosball
April 1st 2010 09:15
Back in December I wrote about several online companies that would back up your data for you on a continuous basis. Most of them didn't come off too well in reviews, in spite of all their promises.
In an Hewlett Packard ezine the other day I noticed that they were discussing a new home server designed for use with both Windows and Mac computers. It's touted as a central repository for automatically backing up and accessing digital music, videos, photos and documents from multiple computers on a home network.
The only problem is that it's under the same roof as your home computer - or any other computers you may own and use. While it's handy to be able to back up all of these onto one system, and to be able to share files across the network, it seems to me not to provide true backup if it isn't in a separate location from the computers that are initiating the data.
It does offer online backup by duplicating designated folders to Amazon’s S3 online backup service for an additional layer of protection. But that seems to me to be duplicated the process altogether. One back up that was secure is what we really need.
So I'm not sure that I'm convinced by this package either. (It's not a lot
different from the 500 gb harddrive we use here to back things up. Except that we take that off site as often as possible.)
On an entirely different note, I was a bit surprised to come across something called: foosball tables. I thought it was a spelling error to start with, until I checked online and discovered that the old popular table game where two players play a form of soccer is actually called foosball.
I wasn't entirely wrong in thinking this was an odd name - table football is still used, along with a heap of other names, apparently. It's not a game I've ever been able to get into really - perhaps it's just that I don't seem to have acquired the skill to actually make the ball do anything except fly off the table at regular intervals.
Ah, well, we'll just have to put it down to being another skill I lack - or may learn if I ever get the time and inclination.
In an Hewlett Packard ezine the other day I noticed that they were discussing a new home server designed for use with both Windows and Mac computers. It's touted as a central repository for automatically backing up and accessing digital music, videos, photos and documents from multiple computers on a home network.
The only problem is that it's under the same roof as your home computer - or any other computers you may own and use. While it's handy to be able to back up all of these onto one system, and to be able to share files across the network, it seems to me not to provide true backup if it isn't in a separate location from the computers that are initiating the data.
It does offer online backup by duplicating designated folders to Amazon’s S3 online backup service for an additional layer of protection. But that seems to me to be duplicated the process altogether. One back up that was secure is what we really need.
So I'm not sure that I'm convinced by this package either. (It's not a lot
On an entirely different note, I was a bit surprised to come across something called: foosball tables. I thought it was a spelling error to start with, until I checked online and discovered that the old popular table game where two players play a form of soccer is actually called foosball.
I wasn't entirely wrong in thinking this was an odd name - table football is still used, along with a heap of other names, apparently. It's not a game I've ever been able to get into really - perhaps it's just that I don't seem to have acquired the skill to actually make the ball do anything except fly off the table at regular intervals.
Ah, well, we'll just have to put it down to being another skill I lack - or may learn if I ever get the time and inclination.
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