[Nfb-krafters-korner] OT computers
Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]
powerst at dcpcepn.nci.nih.gov
Tue Mar 24 19:30:58 UTC 2009
How can you afford this. How does this effect your power bill? I have
all electric.
Terry
-----Original Message-----
From: joseli Walter [mailto:joseli at thezoolady.net]
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 7:31 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] OT computers
I rarely shut my computer down, so I have my antivirus run every night
at midnight and update once a week at about 2 in the morning.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eileen Scrivani" <etscrivani at verizon.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists"
<nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] OT computers
> Joyce & All:
>
> Both Louis & I back up about once per month. It should probably be
done
> in our case once a week or every other week. The frequency depends on
how
> vital you rate the information you keep/change/add onto your computer
and
> the volume of the info you're dealing with. This is a personal
choice.
> We used to start the back ups running at bed time and would let it run
> over night. With newer back up systems it does not take as long.
Maybe
> you could run it during dinner when you will not be using the
computer.
> Since your backup is new & external, I'd expect it might take approx 1
> hour to run, This to depends on the size of your hard drive and how
much
> your backing up.
>
> IMO More importantly for everyone is the anti virus & spyware
software's.
> These should be set to update definitions on a daily basis for both
> updating & scanning for infections. To ignore either of these is not
only
> detrimental to one's self but inconsiderate to those people with whom
any
> type of correspondence, frequent or infrequent, occurs since the
> infections can spread & possibly do damage to their computers. Its
easy
> to set options within your antivirus/spyware program to automatically
> update definitions & perform scans on a daily basis.
>
> I leave my computer turned on from the point I wake up to the time I
go to
> bed, so there are plenty of time slots to choose during the day to
allow
> both of these operations to take place without impacting my working on
the
> machine.
>
> Eileen
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
> To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 11:56 AM
> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] OT computers
>
>
>> This is off topic, but do any of you have your computer set up to
auto
>> backup on a monthly or timely basis? If yes, how frequently does it
>> backup?
>> Does it take a short or long time to backup?
>>
>> I purchased one of those external drives when I got my computer for
>> Christmas and needless to say the drive is still in the box. I was
told
>> I would not
>> want it to backup everytime I guess I put the computer on or off, but
>> just
>> wondering what others have found to work.
>>
>> I know this is not crafty, but if we were to lose all our stuff in
the
>> computer regarding crafts, this is not a happy face here. I went
through
>> that
>> loss twice in the last 8 months.
>>
>> Joyce
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