Death of a Hard Drive

Hello Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,

A perfect storm hit my computer, which has already taken a week of my life to recover, and I have many more days to go.

Some good news, my Cox cable speed is crazy fast.

Bought a new computer with Windows 7.

Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew

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In This Email:

Article: Death of a Hard Drive

Article: Crazy Fast Cox Cable

Article: Getting a New Computer with Windows 7

Article: Outlook 2003 Edit Html Source

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Quotes:

- One kind word can save a life. ~ Dr. Ed Weinschelbaum

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Article: Death of a Hard Drive

I back up my critical data every day to three different websites.

The rest of my data, like photos and music, I backup regularly to two external hard drives in my office. I have three other external hard drives stashed at other people's houses.

For the last ten years, the program I use to backup my data is called Handybackup, which you can get from Handybackup.net.

On November 6, 2009 Handybackup stopped working. I reported the problem to the russians and they have been giving me fixes, none of which worked.

In the meantime, I have been backed up only some of my data by hand. I meant to do more, but time goes fast.

Last weekend I got an error I would not wish on my worse enemy, "read seek failure on drive". All my data was gone and none of the dozen recovery programs could find a single file.

I suspect Handybackup did not work because there were errors on the drive.

Let that be a warning to you. Automate your backup. Backup daily. If your automated program breaks, be suspicious. You need to backup more frequently, not less.

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Article: Crazy Fast Cox Cable

All of a sudden, last Thursday, my Cox cable speed dropped to 0.14 mbps, both up and down. The advertised speed is 3 mbps.

My Cox cable modem was ten years old. Cox upgraded their network last week and the old modems were not supported. Cox gave me a new modem, Motorola SB5101U for free. They cost about $80 in the store. Cox will sell you one for $50 if they are at your house and have one in their truck.

Ran a few speed tests. Download speeds were 16 to 28 mbps. Upload speeds 4 to 5.5 mbps. That is fast.

If Cox made an upgrade in your neighborhood, you may be able to get much faster speeds with the new cable modem.

You can check your speed at www.Broadband.gov.

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Article: Getting a New Computer with Windows 7

If you are in the market for a new computer, consider this.

Bought a new computer. Sam's and Best Buy had about the same deal. Here are the specs of what I got.

Dell Inspiron 560
Intel e7500 64 bit
8 megabytes of memory
1 terabyte hard drive
21.5" monitor
Windows 7 Home Premium

$750

This is double what you get for a laptop at a lower price.

The wide screen is great. Do not need a second monitor. This monitor is wide enough for two windows and a little more.

Windows 7 is fine. No need to be afraid of it. It is easier to use than Vista.

Windows 7 comes with Windows Live Email, which I am using in place of Outlook.

I installed my old version of Microsoft Office 2003, for Excel, Access and Powerpoint.

Also installed Quicken, Quickbooks, iTunes and Visual Studio 2010 Express Beta. All were 64 bit and seem to work fine.

Downloaded a couple of free image editing programs.

The point being, you can buy a new system, with tax for under $850 and you do not need to buy any additional software.

If you are a professional software developer, you will need to upgrade to Windows 7 Professional for $90 to get IIS Web Server.

You do not need Windows 7 Ultimate, unless your IT department at corporate headquarters told you to get it.

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/163/Getting-a-New-Computer-with-Windows-7.aspx

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Article: Outlook 2003 Edit Html Source

In Outlook 2003 you can view the Html source, but you cannot edit the html source.

Found a brilliant post with a macro to edit the html source in Outlook 2003 on Windows XP. I made a small change. Would credit the original poster, but the item was posted annonymously.

Here is my version, using my naming conventions, but I have to admit the original poster's was more readable and the instructions were simpler. Darn, someone smarter than me.

Instructions:

1. In Outlook, go to Tools, Marco, Visual Basic Editor.

2. In the Visual Basic Editor

2.A Create a new Module (not a Class module) like Edit_Html.

2.B Copy in the code below.

2.C In the Visual Basic Editor go to Tools, References. Add references to Microsoft Scripting Runtime and Windows Scripting Host Object Model.

2.D. Save

3. In Outlook, while editing an html message, press Alt + F8, select the macro Edit_Html.

Here is the code. Nice and simple.

'----------------------------------------------------
Public Sub Edit_Html()
Dim filename As String
Dim filesystem As New Scripting.FileSystemObject
Dim item As mailitem
Dim shell As New WshShell
Dim filestream As TextStream
'----------------------------------------------------
' Put html body in a file
'----------------------------------------------------
Set item = ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
filename = filesystem.GetSpecialFolder(TemporaryFolder) & "\" & filesystem.GetTempName
Set filestream = filesystem.CreateTextFile(filename, True, True)
filestream.Write filename & item.HTMLBody
filestream.Close
'----------------------------------------------------
' Read file into wordpad
'----------------------------------------------------
Set filestream = Nothing
shell.Run "wordpad.exe """ & filename & """", , True
'----------------------------------------------------
' After exiting wordpad, read file into htmlbody
'----------------------------------------------------
Set filestream = filesystem.OpenTextFile(filename, ForReading, False, TristateTrue)
item.HTMLBody = filestream.ReadAll
filestream.Close
Set filestream = Nothing
'----------------------------------------------------
' Clean up, delete temp file
'----------------------------------------------------
filesystem.DeleteFile filename
Set filesystem = Nothing
End Sub
'----------------------------------------------------

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