Posts Tagged ‘Data’

Thunderbird 3 Bug: A Workaround

I recently upgraded from Mozilla Thunderbird 2 to the new Thunderbird 3 release. For a few days everything was working fine with the new default settings. I have a few email accounts which Thunderbird fetches mail for and I didn’t want to use the new Smart Folder mode. So I changed back to not using [...]

Goals for 2008

Happy New Year to all of you out there in internet land; I hope the festivities didn’t take their toll. Instead of resolutions for 2007 I set a few simple goals its time for a look at how I got on. Contribute more to Open Source Software – It might be writing documentation or code, [...]

Secure Hard Disk Erase

When a hard disk dies the main priorities are to ensure that there has been little or no data loss and getting the effected system(s) back up and running. The faulty drive is removed and placed to one side. What happens to this drive next? Is it casually discarded, finding its way into the nearest [...]