[Dxbase] Dxbase Digest, Vol 63, Issue 13

Fri Jul 31 05:17:39 EDT 2009

Jon,
For backing up my XP pc I use both a USB hard drive and Internet backup.
The Internet backup is done online by www.carbonite.com and costs about 50ドル per year. That is a small price to pay for a safe backup of critical data.
Just install the small Carbonite application program on your pc and select which folders to back up. Then the Carbonite application backs up your critical data to a safe site on the Internet, continuously, in the background. I hardly notice it's there. I have set it to back up all my documents, photos and databases, including DXbase2005, DXbase2006, Writelog, N1MM, email data, and more. Presently my backup on the Internet contains 14.2GB in 21,933 files. If my house burns down and all my local backup media are gone, I still have the important data available on a server on the Internet.
Additionally I can make a full restore of my PC from an "image" on a USB hard drive.
73 Arnie LA3LJ
Message: 3
Date: 2009年7月28日 21:22:37 -0700
From: "Jon Casamajor" <k6el at comcast.net>
Subject: [Dxbase] DXB and UTC
To: <Dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
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Just a follow up on my question to the group on how to get DXB to log
properly in UTC without setting my Vista Premium box to some UTC time zone. 
I've tried a few automatic time sync programs but they have all failed on
this box. Vista is very security, shall I say Anal so I had to dig into it
to find a solution. A couple of the fellows here suggested using a
government, gag, link posted here.
http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/service/its.htm
it works well and the secret to get it to actually talk to the server and
correct your clock is to go to control panel\user accounts\turn user
accounts on or off and turn the user account control OFF.
Re-boot and just live with the nag bubble that says your computer is not
protected. If you have several users and need to control their access, why
is it in your radio shack? :-)
Lots of things I like about Vista but this isn't one of them. Thanks again
for all your suggestions!
In all this mucking around with DXB, somehow I've managed to loose all of my
contacts in about the last year. I had backed up but two days before this
problem I formatted the flash drive to gain some back up space. I may have
a backup somewhere though.still looking as time allows.
Hell, it's "just a hobby".groan

Regards,
Jon-K6EL
k6el at comcast.net