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Cloned my hard disk drive

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Over the weekend, I spent some time to upgrade the hard disk drive in my notebook computer to one with a larger capacity. This hard disk is the system disk, containing the Windows XP operating system installation. In previous upgrades that involved the system disk, I would do a complete new installation of the operating […]

Mozy Backup after one year

Monday, December 10th, 2007

I have been using the free online backup service from Mozy.com to backup my home computer for more than a year. So far it has worked well and although I have not had a hard disk disaster that requires a restore from Mozy, I have tried using Mozy to retrieve one or two files. It […]

OpenDNS - A Safer and Faster DNS

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

After reading a recent article in PCWorld, I switched my DNS server on my router from those operated by my ISP to those from OpenDNS. In my unscientific tests, I noted a drop in delay in the time taken to lookup a given website.
The following information is from OpenDNS:

Why should I use OpenDNS?

Why is OpenDNS […]